One soldier could not take the pain anymore and ran to the stream. Immediately after he fell in face first to drink, a Japanese guard ran over and cut his head off. The men were given the chance to drink, although it was from a filthy, contaminated stream of water. The stream had a bloated corpse filled with maggots floating down...
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The stream had a bloated corpse filled with maggots floating down. The soldiers that chose to drink from this stream were laughed at and mocked by the Japanese guards. Many of the POW's took their chances with dehydration rather than drinking from the disgusting water in front of them. Though dehydration was a major cause of deaths and illness during the march, there were many diseases passed around from soldier to soldier...
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