Desperate Thirst

And we had to go up to what they call Wan Chai Gap and that was up above us. And Wan Chai Gap, that's where the Japanese were there and they took us. And course it was hot, and the guys had nothing to eat and nothing to drink and it was not the food so much, it was the drink. And we got across to some Japanese guy that we were thirsty, we needed water. And they got one of these little 1500 weight trucks that, four-wheel drive, that had this gas tank on the back of them. So they drained the gas out of that. But they took this truck and they went down the mountain and they got water up and we all had mess tins and stuff and we could turn the taps on the back of this thing to get our water out. Oh, you never tasted anything like that in your life. They never took the gas out of that thing. We're drinking this water and all this gas in it. You want to try and drink some water that’s out of a gas tank, man that's horrible tasting stuff. That was what we had. But the guys were so damn thirsty we were drinking all this junk, you know.