Walking through Hellfire Pass along 'Death Railway' on the Thailand-Burma Railway line

Walking through Hellfire Pass, also known as Konyu cuttings, along the Thailand-Burma Railway line. This rail cutting was created by prisoners of war and forced Asian labourers who were brought here by the Japanese Army. Australian, British, Dutch and US armed forces personnel worked at this location.
Australian War Memorial notes: "The excavation of soil and rock was carried out using 8lb hammers, steel tap drills, explosives, pinch bars, picks, shovels and chunkels (a wide hoe). For a short time an air compressor and jack hammers were used. The bulk of the waste rock was removed by hand, using cane baskets and rice sacks slung on two poles. The Konyu section of the Burma-Thailand railway cost the lives of at least 700 Allied POWs, including 69 beaten to death by Japanese engineers or Korean guards."
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A very sobering feeling walking through here, you just don't feel like talking, thinking about the lads who were here and what they went through ...