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Mission 5 is set in River Kwai, Thailand. The main objective is to destroy important bridge.

Introduction:

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June 1942.

"The Japanese expansion in the Pacific continues. The allied prisoners numbering tens of thousands are directed to prisoner camps where they are forced into slave labor in the most inhumane of conditions. Many perish, victims of beatings, starvation and epidemics.

In Thailand, the prisoners from one of these camps are pressed in to the construction of the Tamarkan bridge, which will complete the vital railway link to Burma, allowing for the movement of men and supplies to the interior of the continent.

Its opening is readied for the 17th of June with a special train of the Japanese high command running the whole railway line ending with the crossing of the Tamarkan bridge, the bridge over the River Kwai."

Objectives

Objectives:
-Rescue Guinness.
-Obtain the explosives.
-Find the bridge's weak spot by taking Guinness to the model.
-Plant the explosive trap.
-Summon the train by sending a telegraph.

Secondary objectives:
-Rescue the prisoners.

Clues:
-Cross the river on an elephant.

The Team[]

Trivia[]

  • The appearance of the bridge and its surroundings is a copy of that in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai", not the real appearance. There were two bridges, the first was wooden, the second is ferro-concrete and stands to this day. They were never sabotaged from the ground but bombed by air-raids. The film and the mission make an impression they take place somewhere in a jungle. In reality, the place is on the edge of a built-up area belonging to the town of Kanchanaburi, just 123 km west of Bangkok.
  • Colonel Guinness is named after Alec Guinness who played the role of Colonel Nicholson in the film. The voice actor even imitates his voice.
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