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Posted in: Japan hosts visit by 5 Australian World War II POWs See in context
If this interests you then read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
It is reported 215,000 POWs were held by Japan 132,000 from US, Britian, Canada, New Zealand, Holland, Australia 36,000 reported to have died, about 27% death rate compared to Germany and Italy were about 1% died. US POWs 34,648 with 12,935 died about 37%.
About 16,000 POW died in Burama building the RR along with 100,000 Asian forced labors.
War is not a nice thing and we should all work to avoid it.
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