Cowra Breakout: Australia's bloodiest mass escape of Japanese POWs in WW II
Die behelfmässige Bewaffnung der japanischen Kriegsgefangenen beim Cowra Breakout 1944 Source: Australian War Memorial
75 years ago, on August 5, 1944, Cowra in the central west of New South Wales was the scene of the largest breakout from a prison camp during the Second World War. It was also one of the bloodiest with four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese prisoners losing their lives in what became known as the Cowra Breakout.
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