A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...
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The Famous DEATH RAILWAY! (& Bridge over the River Kwai!)
Experience Thailand's infamous Death Railway, including the River Kwai Bridge and Tham Kra Sae Trestle. A journey through ...
Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...
Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...
The sight of Allied prisoners of war (POW) working on a difficult construction job under direction of their Japanese captors is a familiar one to movie fans: British director David Lean’s 1957 The ...
TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar. While the section in Thailand has become a tourist destination ...
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