My Dad was a liberator of the Camps and when my husband got a job with a Japanese Company I didn't tell him. Our town had lost many of his pals to the Japanese. Asa child my Dad used to take us kids out of under my other's feet every Sunday. We have a beautiful Cenotaph and he would stop and take off his cap. He said, "My beautiful lassie, all of my pals are here", A particular man who survived used to wake and run all day, shouting speedo. We called him affectionately the road runner. As a community we were concerned but PTSD was not a thing then. Certainly my Dad had it after Dunkirk. I don't know what happened to the road runner as I left to join the Army. My total respect for these Veterans.
@ricdavid7476
6 ай бұрын
my dad and uncle were both in the camps, they came from sussex. they were sick for the rest of their lives. I bet they were glad to see your dad. My father almost never talked about his time but one story i remember was that he and his team were told just before liberation to dig a "swimming pool" by the japanese. They realized that they were actually digging their own graves. I dont think either my father or uncle had it in them to forgive the japanese or even the koreans.
@kevinfiess4494
Ай бұрын
Unbelievable. My grandpa was an airplane mechanic, C-47's. The stationed him in south China as well as India. No doubt to increase the pressure on that area. He would tell me about the japs' flying over his camp and dropping grenades out the window. He never owned a Japanese automobile. He passed on in 2002.
@johntait491
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I've never seen some of this footage and interviews before. Thank you. 👍
@AndthenthereisCencorship-xc6yi
10 ай бұрын
This generation is all but gone. The world and the people have changed so much since the 1930's and 40's. Patriotism and true defenders of freedom embodied in the sacrifice of these men has been forgotten to the history books and to the classroom. I learned of this tragedy only on my own, by additional reading.
@edwardtasi2905
6 ай бұрын
Me too,I was too young
@fugguhber4699
2 жыл бұрын
I'm in Bangkok, right now, as every winter since 2012 ( except 2020 Covid shutdown year ), and have always planned on going up there. I almost went in Dec for the Annual week long festival, but things up there, as in all over the country, were disorganized. NO accurate information on the activities.......... I still want to make a day trip up there....... it's only about 60 miles - or 100 KM away........... GREAT VIDEO.
@ทัศนียาทัด
19 күн бұрын
Go pay your respect .no excuse .leave the girls to pay respect .sorry you should be ashamed
@lilmike2710
2 жыл бұрын
This is GREAT 👍 Footage I've never seen before and stories I've never heard about the Pacific conflicts with Imperial Japan 🗾
@tjittekamminga5170
2 жыл бұрын
Dutch family of a Delft engineer moved to N.O.I. in the thirties crisis. wife and children in camp Ambarava and husband Burma railway. Survived and after the war as railway engineer advisor to Sukarno for the restoration of the infrastructure, but unfortunately died young of myocardial infarction due to forced labour...
@ricdavid7476
6 ай бұрын
my father and uncle were on the railway they were both ill for the rest of their lives my uncle clung on till the age of 78 and my father 68 but my father in particular was terribly terribly ill for the last 10-15 years of his life. Sorry to hear about your husband. We hear of the over 100,000 who died on the actual construction but the walking wounded survivors who suffered and died young after are never mentioned much which is wrong. My life has been a terrible car crash too but I often think how fate or God has had a hand in why i was born at all . Sadly i went off the rails young and by the time i had matured enough to have deep compassion and understanding for my father it was too late he had passed away. i was not invited to his funeral and was told by my mother that i had killed him. I have had to live with this for over 40 years and it has taken a toll on my life too. Cruel wars and man does not seem to have learned anything judging by ukraine and the middle east now. God please destroy all the fake man made post 70AD abrahamic religions that have caused so much misery and bloodshed for the last 2000 years. Putin is a christian water baptized as an adult trying to destroy ukraine which is to a large part also christian. the middle east you have one religion killing another with the christians supporting the apartheid genocidal regime . Religions are mad and evil
@missoula1886
2 жыл бұрын
more people need to see this... no bridge on the River Kwai
@johntait491
Жыл бұрын
The film and the script is a complete load of bollocks. It was a truly inaccurate summary of the horrors endured by POW's building the Burma Railway. All POW's that I knew totally condemned the story, and regarded it as total fiction and an insult to their brutal captivity under the Japanese. The bridge depicted in the film was one built adjacent to Songkurai camp that was situated on the banks of a swift flowing river, the Huai Ro Khi. 😠
@johngodfrey8595
3 ай бұрын
The bridge depicted in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is actually located in Kanchanaburi, not Songkurai. Moreover, the POW camp and the location where the two bridges were built at this place were named Tamarkan.
@rosemarygiggins8675
2 жыл бұрын
My dads brother died at kanchanaburi was 2/30 battalion on the railway never forgotten
@ricdavid7476
6 ай бұрын
my father and uncle were on the railway my dad was at Kanchanaburi for a while. They both survived the war but were ill for the rest of their lives.
@SimpLeeBeth
11 ай бұрын
Anyone know who made this? Director? Production Co? Copyright date???
@tjwells3849
Жыл бұрын
Cool!!!!
@ramakantwadkar4609
Жыл бұрын
Whether this line was used for passenger service?
@angelathomas2117
5 ай бұрын
My granddad was a Australian POW here I have tried finding info about him its been hard I would like to find more info
@johngodfrey8595
3 ай бұрын
Get in touch with the Thai Burma Railway centre Kanchanaburi Thailand. There is a very good chance that you will get plenty of information regarding your grandad and the different places and camps that he worked on the railway...
@angelathomas2117
3 ай бұрын
Thank you I will look into that
@kcharles8857
2 жыл бұрын
Any of this taught in Japanese schools?
@fugguhber4699
2 жыл бұрын
As you already know: The Japanese have a Severe form of Amnesia when it comes to WWII and all the horrendous war-crimes that they committed. They are FINALLY apologizing to their victims in Korea.... the women they turned into sex slaves for their troops. Honestly, I don't think that the country of Japan will ever acknowledge their crimes, let alone teach this brutal history in Japan.
@robertharper3754
2 жыл бұрын
No, not one bit. They teach them that they were the victims of nuclear weapons, not their terrible war crimes.
@randylahey1822
Жыл бұрын
Think of it as Russian backwardness they would never touch on those topics in their own schools, only about the victory. The Japanese still have public shrines to some of these war criminals etc but there's opposition in the younger generations but they have to endure threats etc every time they point things out so people don't bother doing it as much
@thomasciarlariello
6 ай бұрын
Racist lies since if you would be censored for similar commentary about other groups given how mammalian nurturing reflex favors babyish round eyes of Eurocentric and Afrocentric biases.
@lonzo61
Ай бұрын
I'm very frustrated, because I am deeply interested in hearing the stories of these veterans. However, I have a very difficult time understanding them because of the thick accents (I am in the USA--a Yank) and the poor audio quality.
@thomasciarlariello
11 ай бұрын
racist lies
@ricdavid7476
6 ай бұрын
in what way
@thomasciarlariello
6 ай бұрын
WWII was often used to justify racism against Asians such as how Lee Iacocca redistributed Roosevelt's propaganda to have inspired Detroit Autoworkers to murder Vincent Chin with baseball bats to justify how Chinese were literally crucified under Western rail transit tracks duign construction while Mexicans where crucified under cultivator tines and of course "Bilge or Bridge Over River Kwai" film was typical propaganda of Australia's White Supremist policies to have lured into the "Vietnam War". WWII was Roosevelt's persecution of Asians via incendiary flame throwers versus Hitler's persecution of Semitic Middle Easterners via Zyklon B delousing gas chambers since both herded via rail transit to solar serfdom. "Special Effects" by Finch on WWII customers of image optical printers and of course "Astounding" January thru March 1941 advocated designer biological weapons of biolistic or cold plasma electroporation transfection handguns so read "Science of Science Fiction" by Peter Nicholls since even sci fi author Jeanette Ngo commented on such racism. The United States has used herbicidal warfare and warfare against asphalt pavements to impose agricultural produce and rail transit tracks for their agricultural farm and rail transit track lobbies of extreme trade dumping. Militaristic Armed Security News Entertainment Complex of newscasters as de facto blood sportscasters similar to Bradburry's dystopia of televised battles is derived from how mammalian nurturing reflex favors babyish round eyes of Eurocentric and Afrocentric biases, They slashed my car tires to question my patriotism loyalty when I explained to my class how 1935 to 1945 was Politically Correct Popular racism compared to 1965 to 1975 when it was not safe to wear a uniform in public. Eugenic Atwoodian Church Lady self reliance versus Sodomite Austin Powers Passive Aggressive Victimhood Welfare State so who do you prefer "Greatest Generation" harsh bitten by 1929 to 1941 Great Depression of dust bowl famine from potassium phosphate shortages or "Baby Boomers" who became fat dumb and happy from a post war monopoly of 1946 t0 1965?.
@thomasciarlariello
6 ай бұрын
Roosevelt's sea floor mine naval blockade on East Asia from 1938 to 1945 meant Japan lacked enough quality ferrous iron amid surpluses of chemicals and silk to not have rail transit track locomotives nor trolley trains and what rail transit they did have was controlled by Soviet backed rickshaw banditry so therefore they relied on sulfur fueled steam filled airships and deuterium fueled rocket powered gliders of braided fiber composites to haul freight between rooftop hangars equipped with Mary Kenney's STOL fans.
@thomasciarlariello
6 ай бұрын
I have MIT peer reviewed articles and in of 2019 buy invite only to an MIT engineering conference I gave a presentation on how Noguchi of early 1940s Hungnam Hamhung achieved muon catalyzed fusion propulsion with an engine comprised of a dewar of deuterium connected to beryllium alloy reaction chamber nozzle coiled in around electromagnet coils to focus cosmic ray muons for alpha particles to be deflected and converted into neutrons while cryogenic fuel can prevent exceeding of Curie Point,
@thomasciarlariello
6 ай бұрын
Xcor Lynx spaceplane could be converted with deuterated diborane fuel and Helmholtz coils.
@wor53lg50
Жыл бұрын
You can bet your life that big dinner was a slab of knackered mule meat!, see how he was trying to chew it?, certainly was no rare succulent bit of kobi, and i bet they give him a good hiding straight after it, so he puked every morsel he managed back up...
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