What does this have to do with cars? Not a whole lot outside of the random truck that is shown as part of the work but this is as BangShifty a video as I have ever found on the internet. Why? It is about smarts, guts, work, and unbreakable spirit. We can only imagine how excited the engineers that got put on this project were to execute it. Why? Building a suspension bridge anywhere, anytime a big undertaking. Building it in freaking Burma during WWII was exponentially worse. Between the remote nature of the place, the really hard terrain that needed to be worked with, and the fact that the Japanese were constantly bombing the area and trying to kill everyone, this was no low stress operation.
Despite all of the roadblocks and obstacles both physical and mental, the good guys prevailed while needing to destroy unexploded Japanese bombs, casually handle tons and tons of dynamite with zero safety precaution, and work with a Burmese people who were not exactly up on the latest and greatest construction and engineering methods for such a project.
We were wondering if the bridge was still standing and from what we have read, it seems that it no longer is. The river has served as the front line of wars, as a national border, and as an area of contention for a long, long time between Burma and China. In this case it served as a vital artery to help free occupied China and other areas that needed men, equipment, and arms to fight the bad guys with.
Smart, tough, and bad ass. Yep, this is a BangShifty video for sure.
Get a better image of conditions by watching the movie “Bridge Over the River Kwai”! A POW camp in Burma during WW2.