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Title: SMITHSONIAN These POWs Were Forced to Build the Bridge Over River Kwai
Post by: rangerrebew on January 24, 2019, 02:48:02 pm

These POWs Were Forced to Build the Bridge Over River Kwai

Allied POWs rescued in the South China Sea have an incredible story to tell. They'd been kept in a secret prison camp in Thailand, where their Japanese captors forced them to build a railroad from Thailand to Burma. (2:34)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/these-pows-were-forced-to-build-the-bridge-o_1/ (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/these-pows-were-forced-to-build-the-bridge-o_1/)