Sandakan Death Marches

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The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches during the very end of WWII in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of more than 3,600 Indonesian civilian slave laborers and 2,400 Australian and British POW.  Only 6 Australians managed to escape during the marches and because he Japanese did not spare anyone and killed even the few survivors of the grueling marches trough the jungle - these men were the only ones who could tell the story...