Transcription: The Japanese told us that our job was to build a section of the new railway from Siam to Burma. I especially remember one JAP engineer in charge of a working party. His favourite way of getting his orders quickly carried out was to chuck down iron rivets and bars from his perch from the top of the bridge onto the heads of our officers and men working below. When the monsoon broke out with a 72 hour non-stop downpour, most of us prisoners were very nearly our last gasp. The rains which immediately turned the embankments and cuttings into quagmires drenched us day and night and sent the death ra ...
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