![]() During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. According to the: The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. The curved-shaped truss spans are the originals on the bridge (constructed by the Japanese military during WWII) while the two trapezoidal-shaped bridge spans were provided by Japan as after the war ended in 1945 (to replace two curved-shaped truss spans that fell into the river after the bridge was attacked and bombed by Allied aircraft.) The largely fictional film plot is loosely based on the building in 1943 of one of the railway bridges over the – renamed in the 1960s – at a place called Tha Ma Kham, five kilometres from the town of. ![]() A picture of the actual bridge over the in April 2017. Kannikar Dowklee as Siamese girl Historical parallels.
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