Jack Jennings, P.OW. Who Helped Build Burma Railway, Dies at 104

Jack Jennings, P.OW. Who Helped Build Burma Railway, Dies at 104

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and the Oscar-winning film “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” died this month in St. Marychurch, England. He was 104. His daughters Carol … Read more