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
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