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Tamarkand Bridge built by forced POW laqbour, 1945 (b/w photo)

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NAM3037491
Image title
Tamarkand Bridge built by forced POW laqbour, 1945 (b/w photo)
Artist
English Photographer, (20th century) / English
Location
National Army Museum, London
Medium
black and white photograph
Date
1945 AD (C20th AD)
Image description

Between October 1942 and December 1943, the Japanese used forced labour to build a railway that cut 260 miles (420 km) through mountainous jungle to link Burma and Siam (now Thailand). The project was designed to safeguard the passage of military supplies from Singapore and Bangkok to the Japanese armies fighting in Burma. The previously used sea route had become too risky. Building the railway led to the deaths of around 15,000 Allied prisoners of war and over 80,000 Asian civilians from over-work, disease and starvation. The Japanese used the railway until April 1945, when parts of the line and the famous Tamarkand bridge over the River Kwai (Khwae Yai) were destroyed in Allied air raids. From photograph album of 215 photographs, colour plates and press cuttings, 1880-1965; history of the 3rd Cavalry, Indian Army, 1880-1958.

Photo credit
© National Army Museum / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
bridge / Thailand / Asia / South East Asia / landscape / crossing / asia / river kwai / damaged / asian / far east / destroyed / tamarkand bridge / world war ii / world war two / thai / bombed / bridge / world war 2 / second world war / ww2 / wwii / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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