"arjay" wrote in message
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I don't think anyone really knows who finally knocked the bridges down.
But it was Pierre Boulle and David Lean who made them famous -- so famous
that after 1957 tourists went to Thailand looking for the "Kwai River
Bridge."
That presented Thai tourism with a problem. There was no such bridge.

Which is not to denigrate the lives lost building the
Burma-Thai railway, British, Australian, Dutch and native Burmese.
Oh and 360 americans.

The only claim that the Kwai Bridge existed was the following:


"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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And then there is British director David Leans' "Bridge
Over The River Kwai", which credited the British for an
action that in fact Americans accomplished.........