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Old 11-21-2007, 12:59 PM
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Percival was in a hopeless situation I feel. Had he not surrendered then the cost would've been much greater in lives lost. However you do have to consider that most of the prisoners taken were used as Slave Labour on the construction of the Burma - Thailand Railway where many did not survive the brutality of the Japanese during it's construction.
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