The Bridge over
the River Kwai
This
famous bridge is spans the Kwai Yai River. It was brought
from Java by the Japanese Army and assembled at the River
Kwai by the war prisoners. Bombed several times in 1945, it
was rebuilt after the war. The curved spans of the bridge
are the original sections. An estimated 16,000 war prisoners
and 49,000 impressed labourers died during the constrution
of the bridge and the Death-Railway line that leads to Burma.
