BB:-
The OoD were free drops Chug. The japs had placed it on the elephant.
Thanks for the info, BB, but why would they do such a bizarre thing? The orders would not have consisted of much more than a pad or two of paper. You'd have thought that they would have been placed into the custody of the senior officer present, who would admittedly have wanted to pass them up the CoC ASAP. But by elephant? If that decision and the outcome of that decision was learned by their CoC, heads would have rolled (literally in the case of the Imperial Japanese Army!). As you say Danny, thank goodness that the fickle finger of fate pointed in our favour. I hope that the elephant earned an appropriate reward for such duplicitous behaviour towards its former owners!