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‘Pun ji’s’ were one of our forms of defence. What they were, were metre lengths of bamboo, cut down and cut at the end, and cut again and sharpen both ends, and stick them in the ground so you’ve got these very efficient addition to your defence to have that, because you couldn’t get through them.

We moved quite a lot, we hardly stayed in one place I should think two or three days at one time. We moved a lot and every time you finished up at night you had to dig trenches and put defences up- and this is what we used. If the Japanese ran into those they’d tear their legs apart.

We’d put lengths of string with tin cans on too — anything to warn you that the Japanese were coming.

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