tarajm9
Leading Aircraftman
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Post by tarajm9 on Apr 10, 2012 13:00:15 GMT 12
Thank you Errol.
Is there photo's of him in any of the books? Ive done a search on him too but all i could find was a photo of his gravesite.
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Post by nuuumannn on Apr 10, 2012 14:15:07 GMT 12
Terrific story Dave. Did he say where the line went to and from?
At the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where the Japanese commemorate their war dead survives the first train to chug down the Thai Burma railway.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 10, 2012 14:18:23 GMT 12
He did tell me where it was, but I have forgotten. It's all in the interview I filmed. But my mind has gone blank as to which country it was in. He was being shipped from DEI to Japan in a convoy with thousanads of POW's when the convoy was partially sunk by the US Navy submarines. His ship was then diverted away to go do this railway. So the railway saved him from near certain death from being sunk by his own side.
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