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0.1 Where to go from here
0.2 Existing sites
0.3 Historical Markers
0.Introduction
1.0 the TBR Story*
1.1 The Novel
1.2 the REAL bridge
1.3 Telling the TBR story
1.4 TBR maps
10.0 Political Situation
10.1 Thailand’s position & Liberation story
10.2 The Dec 1941 Invasion
10.3 Thai Monarchies
10.4 Thai Democracy
10.5 the Oriental perspective / Futamatsu
10.6 SOE and OSS
10.7 Seri Thai
10.8 Underground Railroad
11.0 the TBR today
11.1 Kanchanaburi
11.10 the TMK POW area
11.2 Boonpong’s House
11.3 Paper Factory
11.4 CWGC burials
11.5 Aerial Overview
11.6 Kwae Noi River
11.7 Wat Don Toom
11.8 Shimoda crash
11.9 TBR Post-war rehabilitation
12 A modern day tour
13.0 VICTORY MONUMENT
14.0 Museums and other sites
14.1 VFW D5 memorial tribute
14.2 CWGC Cemeteries
14.3 Thai-anusorn Memorial
14.4 TBR Museums
14.5 Chinese Soldier Memorial
14.6 a New VFW Memorial
14.7 Witness Trees
15.0 Khun BoonPong
15.1 the V Men’s Club
15.2 Logistics & Aid
15.3 Danes in Siam
16.0 POW Galleries
16a. the POWs
16b. Life on the TBR
16c. Building the TBR
16d. Disease and Deprivation
16e. Liberation
16f. IJA photos
16g. Graves searches and markers
17.TBR Gallery
17a. TBR general
17b. Burma
17c. Nong Pladuk
17d. Kanchanaburi
17e. Chung Kai
17f. Hellfire
17g. Hintok
17h. other camps
17i. romusha
17j. Rolling stock
17k. River Kwai Bridge
17l. Artifacts
17m. Seary Collection
18.Pre-POW Gallery
18a. TXNG
18b. CA-30
18c. other Ships
18d. pre-war Java
19.0 Ban Pong Stories
19g. Recent Findings
19h. A romusha memorial?
2 BURMA
2 Java Civilians 3.6.2
2.0 VFW mandate
20.0 The Romusha
20.1 the term
20.2 the people
20.3 BanPong Incident
20.4 the excavations
20.5 Wat Yuan
20.6 Gallery
20.7 Prof Boggett
20.8 a memorial?
20.9 Personal Stories
21.0 Other IJA stories
21.1 Matsukichi Fujita
21.2 Mikio Kinoshita
21.3 3 more soldiers
22.0 ANECDOTES
23.0 CBI theater
24.0 Grave site data
24.1 Limited data
24.2 Causes of Death
24.3 3 CWGC cemeteries
24.4 Random Observations
24.5 Period of Deaths
24.6 Places of Death
24.7 Dutch POWs
25.0 Saga of H & F
26.0 A Historical Dilemma
26.1 Historiography
26.2 Commodification
26.3 Atrocity Heritage
26th FA
27.0 HMAS PERTH
28.0 POW rosters
28.1 Tharp Grp
28.10 171 Deaths
28.11 Hellships
28.2 Fitzsimmons Grp
28.3 E Battery
28.4 Zeigler Grp
28.5 Hintok
28.6 Mer Mar
28.7 other POWs
28.8 KIA & non-POWs
28.9 other Military
29.0 Books on & by POWs
3.0 WHO were they*
3.1 TXNG
3.10 Non -Army POWs
3.11 Not all white nor male
3.2 The USS HOUSTON
3.3 MERCHANT MARINERS
3.4 LTC Blucher Tharp
3.5 MAJ Rogers
3.6 other US
3.7 other POWs (non-US)
3.8 Unique stories
3.9 Bands of brothers
30. Acknowledgements
31.0 WHATIFs
32.0 Sacrificed ?
33.0 What’s missing ?
34.0 The TRUE STORY series
34.01 Introduction
34.02 TBR build
34.03 Who were they
34.04 What killed them
34.05 the Tamils
34.06 TBR events
34.07 KNIL
34.08 Australians
34.09 the British
34.10 Mere tools
34.11 some history
34.12 some geography
34.13 Prior to
34.14 Americans
34.15 No US there
34.16 1000 total
34.17 Unique stories
34.18 Escapes
34.19 Myths vs Reality
34.20 the Novel
34.21 Media
34.22 the Bridge
34.23 a Summary
34.24 Questions
34.25 Existing sites
34.26 IJA cadre
34.27 Documentation
34.28 a lack of history
34.29 memorials
34.30 a Triumph
34.31 IJA Policies
34.32 Battle of the Java Sea
34.33 Nakorn Pathom Hospital
34.34 Eyes of Texas
34.35 Douglas and Standish
34.36 Cholera
34.37 Logistics
4.0 POW names and numbers
4.1 the Lost Bn Association
40.0 Fictitious History
41.0 JP TEXT
42.0 SACRIFICED
5.0 TBR Timeline
6.0 their Journey*
6.1 How it began
6.2 Java Battle
6.3 Prelude
6.4 Brutality
6.5 Camp life
6.6 Liberation
6.7 Repatriation
6c. Brutality
7.1 US POW DEATHS
7.2 US POW DEATH Details
7.3 Ex-POW deaths
7.4 A ripe old age
7.5 Final resting places
7.POW deaths
8.0 Structure of the TBR
8.1 The route chosen
8.10 Highlands camps
8.11 The Burma side
8.12 Konkoita mtg point
8.13 Ubon Airfield
8.14 Kuching Borneo
8.15 the Engineers
8.16 Kra Isthmus
8.17 The Thai Role
8.18 an Operational railway
8.19 RAF destroys RKB
8.2 the PLAN
8.20 TBR camp list & count
8.21 British Sumatra Battalion
8.21 Causes of Death
8.3 Nong Pladuk Rail Yard
8.4 Kanchanaburi Railway HQ and POW camps
8.5 Khao Poon cuttings
8.6 Wang Po Trestle
8.7 Hellfire Pass
8.8 Hintok area
8.9 Hintok revealed
8.Side stories
9.0 Side stories
9.1 Weaponry
9.2 Avoiding Tragedy
9.3 B-17 gunners
9.4 Transportation
9.5 26th FA
9.6 N. Tx Oral History
9.7 abandon ship SOP
9.8 Heavy equipment
9.9 River ferries
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Capt Pomeroy 3.6.9a
Carpenter ‘King Rat’ 3.6.3
COL Sledge AAF 3.6.4
Dunlop & Toosey
Evans RKB bombs
Ferrey AAF Mukden 3.6.5
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0.Introduction
0.1 Where to go from here
0.2 Existing sites
0.3 Historical Markers
Back
1.0 the TBR Story*
1.1 The Novel
1.2 the REAL bridge
1.3 Telling the TBR story
1.4 TBR maps
Back
2.0 VFW mandate
3.0 WHO were they*
3.1 TXNG
3.2 The USS HOUSTON
3.3 MERCHANT MARINERS
3.4 LTC Blucher Tharp
3.5 MAJ Rogers
3.6 other US
3.7 other POWs (non-US)
3.8 Unique stories
3.9 Bands of brothers
3.10 Non -Army POWs
3.11 Not all white nor male
Back
4.0 POW names and numbers
4.1 the Lost Bn Association
Back
5.0 TBR Timeline
6.The Journey
6.1 How it began
6.2 Java Battle
6.3 Prelude
6.4 Brutality
6.5 Camp life
6.6 Liberation
6.7 Repatriation
Back
7.POW deaths
7.1 US POW DEATHS
7.2 US POW DEATH Details
7.3 Ex-POW deaths
7.4 A ripe old age
7.5 Final resting places
Back
8.0 Structure of the TBR
8.1 The route chosen
8.2 the PLAN
8.3 Nong Pladuk Rail Yard
8.4 Kanchanaburi Railway HQ and POW camps
8.5 Khao Poon cuttings
8.6 Wang Po Trestle
8.7 Hellfire Pass
8.8 Hintok area
8.9 Hintok revealed
8.10 Highlands camps
8.11 The Burma side
8.12 Konkoita mtg point
8.13 Ubon Airfield
8.14 Kuching Borneo
8.15 the Engineers
8.16 Kra Isthmus
8.17 The Thai Role
8.18 an Operational railway
8.19 RAF destroys RKB
8.20 TBR camp list & count
8.21 British Sumatra Battalion
Back
9.Side stories
9.1 Weaponry
9.2 Avoiding Tragedy
9.3 B-17 gunners
9.4 Transportation
9.5 26th FA
9.6 N. Tx Oral History
9.7 abandon ship SOP
9.8 Heavy equipment
9.9 River ferries
Back
10.0 Political Situation
10.1 Thailand’s position & Liberation story
10.2 The Dec 1941 Invasion
10.3 Thai Monarchies
10.4 Thai Democracy
10.5 the Oriental perspective / Futamatsu
10.6 SOE and OSS
10.7 Seri Thai
10.8 Underground Railroad
Back
11.0 the TBR today
11.1 Kanchanaburi
11.2 Boonpong’s House
11.3 Paper Factory
11.4 CWGC burials
11.5 Aerial Overview
11.6 Kwae Noi River
11.7 Wat Don Toom
11.8 Shimoda crash
11.9 TBR Post-war rehabilitation
11.10 the TMK POW area
Back
12 A modern day tour
13.0 VICTORY MONUMENT
14.0 Museums and other sites
14.1 VFW D5 memorial tribute
14.2 CWGC Cemeteries
14.3 Thai-anusorn Memorial
14.4 TBR Museums
14.5 Chinese Soldier Memorial
14.6 a New VFW Memorial
14.7 Witness Trees
Back
15.0 Khun BoonPong
15.1 the V Men’s Club
15.2 Logistics & Aid
15.3 Danes in Siam
Back
16.0 POW Galleries
16a. the POWs
16b. Life on the TBR
16c. Building the TBR
16d. Disease and Deprivation
16e. Liberation
16f. IJA photos
16g. Graves searches and markers
Back
17.TBR Gallery
17a. TBR general
17b. Burma
17c. Nong Pladuk
17d. Kanchanaburi
17e. Chung Kai
17f. Hellfire
17g. Hintok
17h. other camps
17i romusha
17j. Rolling stock
17k. River Kwai Bridge
17l. Artifacts
17m. Seary Collection
Back
18.Pre-POW Gallery
18a. TXNG
18b. CA-30
18c. other Ships
18d. pre-war Java
Back
19.0 Ban Pong Stories
20.0 The Romusha
20.1 the term
20.2 the people
20.3 BanPong Incident
20.4 the excavations
20.5 Wat Yuan
20.6 Gallery
20.7 Prof Boggett
20.8 a memorial?
20.9 Personal Stories
Back
21.0 Other IJA stories
21.1 Matsukichi Fujita
21.2 Mikio Kinoshita
21.3 3 more soldiers
Back
22.0 ANECDOTES
23.0 CBI theater
24.0 Grave site data
24.1 Limited data
24.2 Causes of Death
24.3 3 CWGC cemeteries
24.4 Random Observations
24.5 Period of Deaths
24.6 Places of Death
24.7 Dutch POWs
Back
25.0 Saga of H & F
26.0 A Historical Dilemma
26.1 Historiography
26.2 Commodification
26.3 Atrocity Heritage
Back
27.0 HMAS PERTH
28.0 POW rosters
28.1 Tharp Grp
28.2 Fitzsimmons Grp
28.3 E Battery
28.4 Zeigler Grp
28.5 Hintok
28.6 Mer Mar
28.7 other POWs
28.8 KIA & non-POWs
28.9 other Military
28.10 171 Deaths
28.11 Hellships
Back
29.0 Books on & by POWs
30. Acknowledgements
31.0 WHATIFs
32.0 Sacrificed ?
33.0 What’s missing ?
34.0 The TRUE STORY series
34.01 Introduction
34.02 TBR build
34.03 Who were they
34.04 What killed them
34.05 the Tamils
34.06 TBR events
34.07 KNIL
34.08 Australians
34.09 the British
34.10 Mere tools
34.11 some history
34.12 some geography
34.13 Prior to
34.14 Americans
34.15 No US there
34.16 1000 total
34.17 Unique stories
34.18 Escapes
34.19 Myths vs Reality
34.20 the Novel
34.21 Media
34.22 the Bridge
34.23 a Summary
34.24 Questions
34.25 Existing sites
34.26 IJA cadre
34.27 Documentation
34.28 a lack of history
34.29 memorials
34.30 a Triumph
34.31 IJA Policies
34.32 Battle of the Java Sea
34.33 Nakorn Pathom Hospital
34.34 Eyes of Texas
34.35 Douglas and Standish
34.36 Cholera
34.37 Logistics
Back
40.0 Fictitious History
41.0 JP TEXT
42.0 SACRIFICED
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