2 episodes so far
Each episode has its own page with the chapters, every source we used and a corrections note.
Thumbnail photo: Neekey (Nithe) station, Burma–Siam Railway. Leiden University Libraries, KITLV 25522, CC BY 4.0. Licence
In April 2026 a dam operator in western Thailand lowered its reservoir, and a Death Railway station that had been under water for more than forty years rose out of the mud.
7 chapters · 29 sources
Thumbnail photo: the steel bridge at Tamarkan, c. September 1945. Australian War Memorial P00761.001, public domain. Archive record
In 1957, a Hollywood film told the world a story about a bridge. Almost none of it happened that way.
9 chapters · 22 sources
Japanese transports carried Allied prisoners of war, unmarked, through waters patrolled by American planes and submarines.
Why did Japan invade China? The road from Mukden in 1931 to the Marco Polo Bridge in 1937, told through the documents.
USS Oklahoma lost 429 crew at Pearl Harbor. 396 have been identified. Thirty-three still have no name.
USS Oklahoma during salvage, Pearl Harbor, 19 March 1943. US National Archives 296975, public domain. Archive record
Australia’s worst maritime disaster. The wreck was found in 2023, more than 4,000 metres down.
