Re "Backbreaking wartime work, lost to the jungle," Column One, Dec. 30, 2008
I am writing regarding your excellent article on the horrible story of the black regiments more or less enslaved to build a crazy road across the terrible wilds, jungles, mountains and swamps of Burma during World War II, suffering from blood-sucking leeches, climbing mountains and slogging through swamps, while drenched by monsoon rains. More than 1,000 died, about a man for every mile (all this while fighting the Japanese).
