"The Bridge on the River Kwai" Didn't Even Show the Worst Horrors of the Burma-Thailand Railway.
PoWs were tortured, beheaded and thrown to crocodiles by ruthless guards in hellish race to build train tracks.
Maggots were collected 'by the bucketful' from latrines to feed starving prisoners, men were tortured and beheaded by ruthless Japanese guards, and others were thrown into crocodile-infested waters.
These were among the unimaginable horrors endured by Allied prisoners of war forced to build Japan's wartime death railways.
The grim memories have been thrust back into the spotlight after Nithe station, a key refuelling and resupply point on the Thailand–Burma Death Railway, emerged after spending 40 years underwater.
The railway was built to supply Japan’s forces fighting in Burma, with around 60,000 Allied prisoners of war, many captured after the fall of Singapore, forced to work alongside Asian labourers in brutal conditions that claimed more than 102,000 lives.
British prisoner of war Ted Senior secretly recorded his own suffering on scraps of paper as he endured the notorious railway, later immortalised in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Senior, who battled malaria, intense headaches, toothache and painful sores on his hands, feet and backside, described how prisoners survived on starvation rations in the monsoon-soaked jungle with little medical care.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15907769/Unimaginable-horrors-Japans-WW2-Death-Railways-PoWs-tortured-beheaded-thrown-crocodiles-ruthless-guards-hellish-race-build-train-tracks.html
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Maggots were collected 'by the bucketful' from latrines to feed starving prisoners, men were tortured and beheaded by ruthless Japanese guards, and others were thrown into crocodile-infested waters.
These were among the unimaginable horrors endured by Allied prisoners of war forced to build Japan's wartime death railways.
The grim memories have been thrust back into the spotlight after Nithe station, a key refuelling and resupply point on the Thailand–Burma Death Railway, emerged after spending 40 years underwater.
The railway was built to supply Japan’s forces fighting in Burma, with around 60,000 Allied prisoners of war, many captured after the fall of Singapore, forced to work alongside Asian labourers in brutal conditions that claimed more than 102,000 lives.
British prisoner of war Ted Senior secretly recorded his own suffering on scraps of paper as he endured the notorious railway, later immortalised in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Senior, who battled malaria, intense headaches, toothache and painful sores on his hands, feet and backside, described how prisoners survived on starvation rations in the monsoon-soaked jungle with little medical care.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15907769/Unimaginable-horrors-Japans-WW2-Death-Railways-PoWs-tortured-beheaded-thrown-crocodiles-ruthless-guards-hellish-race-build-train-tracks.html
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