In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Jack Jennings, who has died aged 104, spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer on the Siam-Burma “Death Railway”; he was thought to be the last ...

August 2000 supplement to volume 55, no. 3 of Japanese Philately. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, ...

Frank McVey recently shared the fascinating story of the Siam-Burma Railway over in the Google Earth Community. The railway was built during World War II, as an effort to help connect the railway ...