Skilled torturers.

[**The following takes place during World War II.**] >Japanese “hell ships” with their Allied chattel stuffed in dark, stinking holds delivered survivors to China, Korea, and Japan, where they were forced to work as slaves in mines, factories, and farms. Allied slave labor built the “Railroad of Death” over the Kwai River at a brutal cost of three hundred lives per mile. >The Japanese had their counterpart to the Nazi Gestapo: skilled torturers, the Kempei Tai. One of their favorite tricks was to force fistfuls of rice down a POW’s throat, insert a water hose down his throat until his belly swelled, and then mercilessly jump on him. _____________________________ **Source:** Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. “Armada.” *Flags of Our Fathers*. Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006. 138. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Burma–Siam Railway, the Thailand–Burma Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway) [The Kenpeitai (憲兵隊, "Military Police Corps")](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenpeitai) ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon]( https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**