"One particularly nerve-racking occasion was when we were attached to an American division and they had my platoon stuck out across the river on an outpost and the Chinese were desperately trying to take some real estate off the Yanks at that time and they were launching heavy attacks and they were attacking us at the same time. You could hear these bugles going off. It wasn't so much that there'd be a bugle or two in front of you but there would be bugles to the left of you, to the right of you and sometimes behind you as well plus the whistles. Then usually the crescendo of artillery would follow that and then the bugles would start rapidly approaching you, you know and you realised that you had company and lots of it. It was a bit testing on the nerves. After a while really you sort of got used to it but the first time or two that you heard these things you thought oh my god what's coming, pretty frightening it was. And it suited the Chinese purpose in that fashion. They knew it was going to frighten you and it served as their signals at the same time so it was a no loss result for them and definitely a no win for us. Psychological warfare and it worked."

CORPORAL RON CASHMAN