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Children of Far East Prisoners of War

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand1.html
http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand2.html
Read a history and view a map of the Burma-Siam (Thailand) Railway.

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand3.html
http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand5.html
Read two narratives from former P.O.W. Frank Tantum.

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand4.html
Read a report by Colonel F.J. Dillon, MC of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_thailand6.htm
Read a report by Major C.H. Wild about Thailand during the war.

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/stories_kwai_bridge.htm
Read Alan Brown's personal narrative of his visit to Kanchanaburi sixty years after the war, and the death of his father as a P.O.W.


Pacific Wrecks

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Travel information for Kanchanaburi, Thailand, with an overview of museums, memorials, and historic sites.


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