Witness History - Surviving the "Death Railway"
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During World War Two the Japanese forced prisoners of war to build a 400 kilometre railway from Thailand to Burma. Tens of thousands died during the construction and it became known as the "death railway". A former British prisoner of war, Cyril Doy, told Claire Bowes how he survived sickness, starvation and humiliation while building the famous railway bridge over the River Kwai.
(Photo: Allied Prisoners of War in a Japanese prison camp 1945 British Pathé)
Published on Friday, 31st August 2018.
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