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![]() But the bombs did no great damage to the steel bridge until the eighth, ninth and tenth attacks, which destroyed three spans of the bridge. Bullet holes can still be spotted on the original spans of the bridge. Bombing of the bridge took place several times during the summer of 1945. ![]() It was brought up to Kanchanaburi by barge and was assembled by the prisoners. The metal bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese. The remaining wooden supports of the downstream bridge can be seen during the dry season. One bridge was built at the site of the metal bridge the other was approximately 100 meters downstream from the metal bridge. Two wooden bridges were built by British, Dutch, Australian, and American prisoners of war. Air Force planes also flew missions in the area from Chungking, in the south of China. The planes flew to Thailand from bases in Ceylon. The prisoners built several bridges at the site of the present steel bridge.Īll three bridges were bombed not by British underground agents but by British Air Force planes. ![]() ![]() The, actual World War II history of the "Death Railway" is somewhat different from the novel. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is, known to most people through Pierre Boulle's novel and the movie based on it According to Boulle the finest espionage agents British Force 136 could muster risked tlieir lives to plant explosives on the bridge the Allied prisoners of war built for the Japanese. Permission must be obtained before any part of this story is copied or used. ![]()
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