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Cowra prisoner breakout remembered

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The last living Japanese soldier involved in the 1944 Cowra Breakout, Teruo Murakami, (wheelchair) attends the anniversary in Cowra.
The last living Japanese soldier involved in the 1944 Cowra Breakout, Teruo Murakami (wheelchair), attends the anniversary in Cowra. Source: SBS

Australians and Japanese gather at the site of "Prisoner of War Camp 12" to commemorate the night hundreds of Japanese POWs attempted a mass breakout.

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Australians and Japanese gather at the site of "Prisoner of War Camp 12" to commemorate the night hundreds of Japanese POWs attempted a mass breakout.

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