Running time
1 min 17 sec
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
Somebody came past and said "Hey you blokes, the war's over" and that was the end of it. So we sort of sat there and said "Geez. Fancy that." you know, but within days things started to happen.
The units were looking after Japanese prisoners of war mostly. I was still in headquarters attachment so I didn't get close to them but the normal company strength they were out there chasing up Japanese because the Japanese were pretty dispersed and a lot of them didn't want to know about the ceasefire and they had to be winkled out and then looked after in the compound, feed them.
A pretty sorry lot, pretty disgruntled, pretty switched off. It was a terrible disgrace for them.
