The Bridge on the River Kwai (Death Railway) Kanchanaburi Province (late upload) 11-05-2023 (Sunday)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (Death Railway) 

The Death Railway in a nutshell is a horrendous part of Thailand’s history that was created by the blood and sweat of WWII prisoners of war (POWs) and Asian slave laborers. In WWII, the Imperial Japanese Army had taken over 

South East Asia and accumulated tens of thousands of skilled and healthy prisoners of war, who were later used as laborers to support their war effort one of the major projects that these 

POWs were funneled to work for constructing a railway. These men, along with many other Asian laborers simply looking for work, were assigned to build the railway. It originated in Thailand and cut across to the Burmese war front to aid in the Japanese invasion of India. 

It was originally named the "Thailand-Burma Railway", it earned the nickname “Death Railway” because over one hundred thousand laborers died during its 16-month construction between 1942 and 1943. Once completed, it stretched 250 miles from Ban Pong, Thailand to Thanbuyuzayat, Burma. Many more died while remaining in the POW camps until 1945.

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