Railwaymen in the War: Tales by Japanese Railway Soldiers in Burma and Thailand 1941-47

Introduction PART I: THE TRAINING OF RAILWAY SOLDIERS A New Conscript Military Civilians The British View: Railways in the Burma Campaign PART II: ADVANCE IN BURMA Assault Landing on Singora The First Battle Advance to Malaya Advance to Moulmein Advance to Rangoon Start the Train Service Diary of a Company Commander The British View: Railway Demolitions in Burma PART III: CONSTRUCTION OF THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY The Zero Mile Post The Volga Boat Song and the Bridge My Touchstone - The Chunghai Cutting Painter A New Company Commander at Konyu and Hintok The Konyu Cutting Cholera The Hirota Platoon at Hintok Lt-Colonel Banno and the POWs A Hard Sruggle in the Remote Jungle Matoma, the Hardest Time of All Celebrating the Completion of the Railway A Thief of Tins A Private and Prisoners Korean Guards The Relationship between the Railway Regiment and the POW Camps View of the POWs The British View The Featherstone Incident and its Effects on POWs PART IV: STRUGGLE AT THE MYITKYINA LINE Myitkyina Line Fight with Chindits at Mawlu The Battle Near Ponchan Keep the Trains Running Transportation of Provisions Annihilated at Myitkyina The Retreat from the Myitkyina Line Maintenance of Locomotives The British View: The Battle at White City (Henu) on 17 March 1944 PART V: RETREAT Move to Lashio Line Defending Mandalay Retreat on the Mandalay Line Destroy the c56 Locomotive Evacuation from Rangoon The Last Train from Rangoon Over the Burma-Thailand Railway to Malaya To Sumatra Trans Sumatra Railway The British View: Advance to Rangoon PART VI: JAPANESE SURRENDERED PERSONNEL AND THE MILITARY COURT We Were Defeated Days Without Pride Report to the Gaol A Korean War Criminal and a Japanese Officer Sacrificed Men Petition for a Reduced Penalty A British View: 'March to the Scaffold' Appendix