Now and then we would need to clear the rear areas of guerillas and/orsnipers, they made life uncomfortable for drivers and such. Hell of a jobas they were impossible to locate, too many mountains and too much scrubfor them to hide in. Sometimes they booby-trapped the area and thesearchers could end up being a casualty.

I personally never found one myself, lost a lot of sweat trying though.

Note my slouch hat compared to the one at right which still has a Puggareeon it (the light coloured band). This hat served me from 1951 until I wenthome in September 1953. I am told that we carried .303 rifles on thesehunts as any targets were usually long range and running. Note the twoKATCOMs beside me, wearing berets. Sometimes the favoured ones got to weara slouch hat.