LC control no. | n 83201886 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Burma-Siam Railroad |
Variant(s) | Burma-Thailand Railway Burma Railway Death Railway Burma-Siam Railway Thailand-Burma Railway |
Beginning date | 1943 |
Ending date | 1947 |
Found in | Gordon, E. Through the valley of the Kwai, 1983, c1962 (subj.) (name not given in CIP material) LC data base, 7/27/83 (hdg.: Burma-Siam Railroad) The Burma-Thailand Railway, 1993. Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 21, 2014 (Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Burma-Siam Railway, the Thailand-Burma Railway, and similar names; 415-kilometre railway between Bangkok and Rangoon, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943, to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II; the line was closed in 1947) |