WWII Tunnels Not A New Find, Says Author

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THE AUTHOR of a book entitled “At War With My Father” disputes that the mysterious tunnel which residents of Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district said over the weekend they discovered, believed to have been built by Allied prisoners of war and forced labourers during World War II, is a new find as it had been discovered 14 years earlier.

 

Ms. Lynette Silver, the author of this book, sent ThaiNewsroom.com an email with the following details about this and other historic tunnels built with great suffering by the POWs and forced labourers when they constructed the Death Railway at the orders of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II:

 

“I am a military historian living in Australia. The tunnel that is featured  on your website  was found  14 years ago, at the urging of the daughter of one of the Australian prisoners of war who was involved in the construction.

 

“In 2010, using clues supplied by the late Mrs. Dianne Elliott from records kept by her father, Sergeant Fred Howe, along with information obtained from a local farmer, the Thai Burma  Railway Centre in Kanchanaburi went to the area and discovered the tunnel opposite the site of the Songkuri POW Camp.

 

by TNR Staff

Ms. Lynette Silver outside the tunnel.

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-04-03

 

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[zhounan]

Ms. Lynette must be banned from entering into Thailand, because she disrespected the image of Thailand and the face of Thai People.

[impulse]

The photo in the other OP shows a guy standing upright at the mouth of their cave, with quite a bit of clearance overhead.

 

It's not hard to imagine there's hundreds of such caves all over Thailand, especially along the railway where they'd expect to be bombed and had prisoner labor to dig them.

 

It would be helpful for all the claimants to post GPS coordinates of their finds, just to eliminate questions.

 

[cowellandrew]

I live in saiyok for the past 35years

Father inlaw now deceased told stories of the Japanese using these caves and tunnels during the war,

And the rumours of hiding gold in them!

 

I went to the area that is now the Australian visitor centre,

There was nothing there before just jungle

 

 

 

[ukrules]

Local kids have probably been 'playing' in there for years

[cowellandrew]

38 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Local kids have probably been 'playing' in there for years

All the locals go all over these areas collecting mushrooms, bamboo shoots, pak wan ( dont know english) 

Honey comb,

Shooting birds pheasant, other small birds,

Trapping small tree squirrels, moles, 

pangolin, tortoise, etc

 

A few years a land owner, set up an operation, 

One of these caves or tunnels had a large population of bats, the cave was just up the hill side from the railway at Lumsum, wangpo viaduct, sapan molanar 

 

The workers employed were to bag up the bat droppings, this was to be used as fertiliser, but then to get it down the mountain side would be difficult,

Thai idea, 

A path was cut down the mountain side,

And a zip wire was put up and the bags slided down.