With the POWs was Doctor Henri Hekking ... tin cans, boxes – camp utensils. [Source: The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass] Besides the salvaged metal from food tins and bits of detritus ...

What he did not expect was that, with hand-held implements like these, he would have to build a railway. The railway in question was to run from Ban Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma (now ...

The Black Prince was notorious camp commandment Lieutenant Usuki, who handed out beatings to men who worked on the Death Railway in Burma and beheaded one British PoW in full view of his ...