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In "Bridge Over River Kwai" the main American character is an enlisted man who pretended to be an officer hoping for better treatment by the Japanese military. Do we have any records of that really happening, and did they face any sort of punishment when they were eventually released?

by /u/Ubergopher in /r/AskHistorians

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