Japanese savagery adds to death toll
26th June 1943: In the midst of the terrible ordeal of the Death Railway, sadistic Japanese guards add to the death toll among Allied POWS
In Burma and Thailand the prisoners of war of the Japanese were engaged in the hard labour of building the railway that would give Japan access to India. They worked in literally murderous conditions. Recently cholera had emerged as an additional threat. But the barbaric behaviour of some Japanese guards was a further danger.
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