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Mr. Gerrard describes the rough look of the enemy, and how his Japanese captors are initially hesitant to approach the captured Canadians.
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I’ve heard of these people being called guerrillas and that’s just what they look like to tell you the truth. Of course, their build is very short and they were stocky and they were pretty rough looking people. Of course, I guess they were battle experienced men and certainly their clothing wasn’t, well it showed like they’d been fighting men, you know, there was nothing neat about them and nothing clean about them and they were pretty rough. But they were a little hesitant on how to treat us, I think. I think it was more or less, I got the impression that maybe it was the first real contact they had with white people and at first they were a little hesitant, you know. Of course there’s always some that aren’t, that they’re the other extreme but the ones I ran into just seemed to sort of hold their distance, to a point.