Chapter 6 examines how Southeast Asians tried to cope with wartime deprivation. The unavailability of almost all basic goods led to the appearance of whole ranges of substitutes. The chapter looks at many of these substitutes. For example: in Malaya, spoons and forks were fashioned out of sheet aluminium salvaged from the wreckage of downed Zeros and Flying Fortresses. Burmese villagers obtained parachute cloth, literally from the skies, and found it useful. One guerrilla unit in Leyte in the Philippines had to compensate for the lack of a printing press, printing papers and ink with which to print their own currency. They utilized wooden blocks made by local engravers and ink concocted by a resident chemist, and printed on wrapping paper, grade three notebook paper or whatever other paper could be scavenged.