in the early hours of august 5 1944 . 1100 japanese prisoners
launghed a mass breakout from a p.o.w. camp near the small .N.S.W
australian town of cowra
armed with the most primitive weapons they charded over the barbed wire
into australian gun fire

three hundred and thirty four actually escaped twenty had already committed
suicide with in the compound another .180.odd died during the breakout
itself aloung with four of the australian guards

the breakout at cowra wos the biggest prison break and the first land battle
on australian soil

the full story of cowra wos not revealed for more then thirty after
a very good australian film
best krieg

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