PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Richard Flanagan’s book The Narrow Road to the Deep North isn’t a light read. Published in 2013, it won the Booker Prize for its depiction of its hero, Dorrigo Evans’, struggles in Burma during the ...

TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar. While the section in Thailand has become a tourist destination ...

Jungle war veteran Len Gibson has died aged 101 – just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life. Len, from Sunderland, endured three and a half nightmare years of forced labour, ...

The harrowing story of one of the greatest chapters of World War II---the building and defense of the Burma Road The Burma Road tells the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of ...