SUK14427 Accession Number: SUK14427

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Ban-Tam-Kam, Thailand. C. 1945-05. In a round trip of nearly 2,500 miles from bases in India, RAF Liberator aircraft of Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, smashed a 600 feet three span girder bridge at Ban-Tam-Kam, on the Bangkok-Singapore railway. The bridge, 600 miles north of Singapore had been hit before but the new strike has demolished it, denying the enemy the use of a vital supply link for their armies resisting in Lower Burma and Thailand. After the attack, the centre span of the bridge has been blown out and is lying in the river, thus blocking one of the important supply links to the Japanese armies fighting in Lower Burma and Thailand.

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Accession Number
SUK14427
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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