Description
Mr. Jones describes being sent to Japan after the Korean cease-fire to help set up a training camp at Nippon Berra.
Bud Jones
Bud Jones was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was a good boxer and very athletic, becoming a PT instructor before his deployment to Europe in the Second World War. He was assigned to the Royal Canadian Regiment, whose responsibility it was to eliminate German V2 rocket launching sites along the European side of the English Channel. He would see service in France, Belgium and Holland. Following his war service, Mr. Jones enlisted in the regular forces, becoming a career soldier. During that time, he served in Germany and Japan in addition to his service in Canada.
Transcript
Once the peace talks started Canada had to... cease sending more troops to Korea. So they, what they did, they were stopped at Japan, and what they needed was instructors, physical training instructors to, to move back to Japan and design and build obstacle courses at this training camp and this entailed trying to make it, to make it look and to find terrain that looked exactly like the terrain... in Korea, you see. And so in Japan we found these mountains in a place called Nippon Berra and what I did, I set up the obstacle course itself. That includes all kinds of... you know, holes you can fall into, filled with mud and you know, and barbed wire covering trees and... Tarzan swings, anything, anything that would make people work.