WWII Prisoner of War Who Was Crucified for 63 Hours Straight Yet Lived
The unbelievable story of an Australian Ringer Edwards.
When Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, Australia entered the war.
Almost one million Australian men and women fought in the war; 39,000 perished fighting the Axis troops, and 300,000 were prisoners of war. Herbert James Edwards was one of the latter — his survival story will stay with us for the ages.
Edwards not only survived three years in Japanese captivity, but he also miraculously survived 63 hours of being crucified. He was also made to labor on the terrible Burma-Thailand railroad.
Edwards overcame enormous odds; approximately 40% of Australian POWs in Japan died in captivity before WWII. From 1942 until the war’s end in 1945, the Japanese were the focus of most of Australia’s efforts.
Edwards Was a Burma Railway Worker.
During WWII, the Japanese constructed the Burma Railway utilizing POW labor. Tens of thousands of POWs were forced to cut through the deep forest and hills between Thailand…
