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Sandakan Airport, a modern travel hub in Borneo, has a dark history. Originally built by British and Australian POWs during World War II under brutal conditions imposed by the occupying Japanese forces, the airfield served as a strategic refueling point. Thousands of POWs and laborers suffered and died during its construction. Even after the airfield became operational, the suffering continued as the war's tide turned.
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