![]() ![]() ![]() Shears gets permission to use to other agents on this mission. Force 316 is a special operations force that is called upon to act covertly and in small groups. The mission falls into the lap of Major Shears of Force 316. ![]() Plans about the railway started surfacing and the allies began work on a plan to destroy parts of the railroad to make it inoperable. Eventually Saito relents and allows the officers to command their troops rather than work with them. Since they did not have good military leaders, the workers did very little right when working on the bridge. Nicholson was also given salt-laced rice and a less than meager amount of water. However, the imprisoned commanding officer of the allies, Colonel Nicholson, will not allow the officers to work, and for that Saito "throws into a hut where there was neither bed nor chair" (26). camp, Colonel Saito, tries to force the officers of the allies to work with the regular soldiers. Things begin badly for the allies when the commander of the P.O.W. Once at the river, the P.O.W.'s receive orders to begin work a bridge to connect a railway that stretches from Burma to Siam. The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle begins with a large deployment of Allied prisoners of war headed to the Kwai river valley. ![]()
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