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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
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Re: Vandals Destroy Kwai Bridge Plaque
Date: April 26, 1999
In September 1997, a plaque was placed near the infamous Kwai Bridge that linked Thailand to Burma. Site of horrorific privation where thousands of POWs and slave laborers perished under the cruel hand of Japan.
The plaque was destroyed as souvenir hunters removed pieces. It has now been replaced during a ceremony this past Sunday.The 250 mile-long railway was memorialized in the film, Bridge Over The River Kwai.
Thousands upon thousands of slave laborers perished as well as Allied POWs from the US, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The US casualty rate was staggering - of 688 POWs, 356 perished.
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