tying yourself in with a rope. He related that once you fired a shot you had to get down as quickly as possible. He was ordered to test a new inflatable dingy in Mount Lavinia Bay in Sri Lanka, but the dinghy deflated whilst he was far out in the bay. He was nevertheless required to ensure he returned with the dingy, so had to swim back dragging the deflated dinghy behind. He also spoke of being asked to guard some Americans who had been freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. The Americans were so emaciated and starved that he was asked to forcefully stop them from eating at gun point to avoid them overeating and injuring themselves. He mentioned that all members of his unit were required to carry a cyanide capsules on missions as capture wasn't an option Legacy Force 136 Camp, Pekan, Pahang On 27 October 2011, the late Sultan of Pahang, Sultan Ahmad Shah named a new Malaysian Army military camp in Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia as Kem Force 136 ('Force 136 Camp'). The camp serves as the headquarters for the 505th Battalion, Territorial Army Regiment. Commando Bay, Okanagan Lake, Canada A bay on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada, where the first batch of Asian Canadian Force 136 members received commando training. In 2014, the Canadian government renamed the bay Commando Bay and designated it as a historical site. There is a war memorial placard there. In popular culture Books, film and television. 1946: "Jungle Diary", a diary-style book by Duncan Guthrie, an Operation Jedburgh paratrooper and Force 136 agent, about his 3-month survival in the jungle after injured during parachuting into Burma in 1945. 1949: "The Jungle Is Neutral", a book by Freddie Spencer Chapman about his missions and experience surviving in the Malayan jungle during WWII. 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai, a film, depicts a fictional commando school referred to as "Force 316", the commanding officer "Major Warden" wears the patch of Force 136. 1959:"Lt Nor Mohd Rani" wrote by himself about his experience during fight Japanese soldier in Gerik 1978: "Operations Most Secret: SOE: the Malayan Theatre", a book by Ian Trenowden about SOE operations behind Japanese lines in Malaya. 1978: "Undercover in the Jungle", a book by John Leslie Bowen, a South Africa-born British Indian Army officer about his covert mission in Burma during WWII and his time