The Second World War in “The East”
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On August 15, we commemorate the end of World War II in Asia. Although the war years in 'De Oost' were not inferior in intensity to what happened in Europe, the battle in the Dutch East Indies attracts much less attention than that in the Netherlands. Many of the soldiers who took up arms at the time are now deceased, 76 years later.
As a tribute to them, the Defense newspaper pays attention to the war in the Indonesian Archipelago on the basis of previously published articles.
This time the story of the Dutch East Indies veteran Henk Bouwens, who died last year, who was made a prisoner of war after the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) had surrendered to Japan in 1942. He had to work on the Burma Railway; the 415 kilometer long route between Nong Pladuk in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar (Burma).
Read the whole touching story with impressive photos from that period on this link: magazines.defensie.nl/
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