"I had not had any food. I used to eat a bit of grass and some of the raw crabs that were crawling along the beach and that sort of thing and the water I managed ... I got a water bottle out of the Jap tent ... I was drinking water all the time."

"The horrible thing about the whole thing was the fact and it's a thing that stayed with me for a long, long while after I got back was the horrible stench ... the jungle absolutely stank of the dead people. It was a most nauseating thing and that smell, I reckon it stayed with me for a couple of years after I got back because I was in amongst it. I'd move along the track and you'd see a dead body just lying on the track and it was you know bloated about three times the size of normal and the smell was absolutely ... I got into one batch of huts and there were about six or seven just lying there ... nothing had been done they were just lying there exposed and putrefied. It was a very, very horrible thing and of course obviously that would, went through my mind you know that could have been me or my mates ... what a stupid thing the whole thing is."

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT RAYMOND 'RAY' GRAETZ