In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide ...
A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war from a POW camp in Cowra ... voted yes for the breakout during a ...
Cowra Breakout 80th Anniversary. Counterclockwise from top right - Delegation from Joetsu City in Japan, Mayor of Cowra Ruth Fagan, Hiroaki Asada of Hiroshima Cowra Association, Japanese working ...
Before dawn on the 5th of August in 1944, Japanese prisoners of war, placed in the detention camp in Cowra, New South Wales, staged a mass breakout. As a result of the incident, 234 Japanese ...
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