Getting ready for night patrol on Hill 355 Area, '53.
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Here is Bob Fallon getting dirtied up for a patrol. Charcoal, burnt cork or a special grease would be used to break up the white skin. Surprising how a clean white face could show up at night, especially if there was a bit of moonlight. Thus a little camouflage would often be used. Bob saw the tail end of WW2 and was known as 'a good dig', always reliable. His features are on the now famous etching at the new Australian Korea War Memorial in Canberra. This was copied from a photo of a six platoon 'fighter' heading down a trench on 355, to party the night away with 'Charlie' out in the valleys. The same photo much enlarged, adorns a wall in the Seoul War Museum. Like so many others, Bob and the bottle became too well acquainted after the war. |