My Dad was a pilot flying a cargo plane right over these guy's heads at that time.My Wifes Opa was taken prisoner of war in the Dutch East Indies by the Japanese WW2. This book is illustrated buy DUTCHMAN Otto Kreefft View attachment 26451
It's a visual record of the brutality these men endured under the hands of their captors the Japanese whilst building the Burma Railway.
61000 Australian, English, Dutch and American POWs
415 KM of railway
Six Million Cubic meter of soil excavated
Three million cubic meters of Rock
300m of elevation
All by these MEN!
a sobering read...