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World War II Death Railway route
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/World_War_II_Death_Railway_route
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:railway_line
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Burma_Railway
Thailand–Burma Railway
gptkbp:buildingCompleted
1943
gptkbp:built
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:builtBy
gptkb:Imperial_Japanese_Army
gptkbp:constructionStartYear
1942
gptkbp:countryOfOperation
gptkb:Myanmar
gptkb:Thailand
gptkbp:endPoint
Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar
gptkbp:estimatedDeathsAsianLaborers
tens of thousands
gptkbp:estimatedDeathsPOWs
over 12,000
gptkbp:featuredIn
gptkb:The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai_(film)
gptkbp:gauge
metre gauge
gptkbp:historicalSignificance
symbol of wartime suffering
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
World War II Death Railway route
gptkbp:length
415 km
gptkbp:memorial
gptkb:Kanchanaburi_War_Cemetery
gptkb:Thanbyuzayat_War_Cemetery
gptkbp:notableBuilding
gptkb:Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai
gptkbp:notableEvent
forced labor
war crimes
gptkbp:numberOfAsianLaborersUsed
over 180,000
gptkbp:numberOfPOWsUsed
over 60,000
gptkbp:operatedBy
State Railway of Thailand (partially, postwar)
gptkbp:purpose
military supply line
gptkbp:startPoint
Ban Pong, Thailand
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Tenasserim_Hills
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7