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The Cowra Breakout
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 ...
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Film investigates Japanese POWs’ ‘suicidal’ escape attempt at Cowra
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 ...
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New app opens the door to the past - 75 year anniversary of Cowra breakout
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 ...