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War crimes trials | After the War | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. In passing sentence on the accused the court is merely carrying out the laws of British and international justice. We are not taking our vengeance, but protecting society from the ravages of cruelty and imposing a sentence to act as a deterrent to others who, in the years to come, may be like minded. Colonel J. L. McKinlay,. Australian war crimes trials, Morotai. Class B (violatio...
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Background history | The Building of Hellfire Pass | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. The Building of Hellfire Pass. The Building of Hellfire Pass. The Japanese advance in the Asia-Pacific in late 1941 and early 1942 was one of the most dramatic periods of conquest in modern military history . In just five months Japanese forces occupied territory that stretched from British Burma (now Myanmar) in the west to the American Wake Island in the east. Despite having fea...
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British | The Workers | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill describing the fall of Singapore.]. When the Japanese conquered. Much of South East Asia in late 1941 and early 1942 they captured more than 50 000 British military personnel. Some 30 000 of these prisoners of war later worked on the Thai–Burma railway. Two divisions (9th and 1...
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The Thai-Burma railway and Hellfire Pass sitemap | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. The Thai-Burma railway and Hellfire Pass sitemap. Between October 1942 and 16 October 1943, some 200,000 Asian laborers and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war built the 415-kilometre Thai Burma railway to supply the Japanese forces in Burma, bypassing sea routes made vulnerable when Japanese naval strength was reduced in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway in 1942. Changi’ has bec...
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‘Weary’ Dunlop | Surviving | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop. The men would do anything for him and are proud to be with him. I am sure it is his presence which holds this body of men from moral decay in bitter circumstances which they can only meet with emotion rather than reason. . This selflessness, this smile, command more from the men than an army of officers each waving a Manual of Military Law. In November 1...
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Changi | Australian Prisoners in the Asia-Pacific | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. Australian Prisoners in the Asia-Pacific: Changi. Australian Prisoners in the Asia-Pacific. You were heaven to us then! Sydney Alternative Publishing Cooperative, 1980, 155.]. And the Thai–Burma railway. There were in fact two ‘Changis’, which over the years came to be conflated in popular memory. I argued with my conscience, Death and Glory vs Common Sense. Of Love and War. In th...
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Overview | The Enemy | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. More about war crimes trials. More about the Japanese. Conquest of the Asia Pacific. The Japanese advance in the Asia-Pacific in late 1941 and early 1942 was one of the most dramatic periods of conquest in modern military history. Find out how and why so many Allied prisoners were available to the Japanese to use as labour on such a huge project as the Thai Burma railway. Between ...
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Anzac Day in Thailand | Remembering the Railway | The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
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Skip to Content ». The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass. Australian Prisoners of War on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-1945. Anzac Day in Thailand. Anzac Day in Thailand. Just before dawn a few shadowy forms gathered on the road [at 75-Kilo camp, Burma]. The still solemnity of this Anzac morning their day since 1915 garbed their emaciated forms with imagined uniforms . [They marched]. William P. Webb memoir, AWM PR87/183]. Anzac Day has always been connected with the Thai–Burma railway. Despite their si...
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