1944 Japanese POW escape in Cowra, New South Wales
For the miniseries, see The Cowra Breakout (miniseries).
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Cowra Breakout
Cowra POW Camp, 1 July 1944. Japanese POWs practising baseball near their quarters, several weeks before the Cowra Breakout. The photograph was taken for the Allied Far Eastern Liaison Office, with the intention of using it in propaganda leaflets, to be dropped over Japanese held islands and Japan itself.
The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia. It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest. During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers were killed and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed or committed suicide. The remaining escapees were re-captured and imprisoned.
The CowraBreakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New...
to commemorate the breakout, involving local school students, council members, local dignitaries and guest Japanese visitors. Cowra has a number of heritage-listed...
rural New South Wales, Toyoshima was one of the instigators of the Cowrabreakout, sounding a bugle to signal the commencement of the escape, and died...
showed during the Cowrabreakout, on 5 August 1944, when Japanese prisoners of war staged a mass escape from a prisoner-of-war camp at Cowra, New South Wales...
to 1944. It was the location of the infamous Cowrabreakout in 1944. The property is owned by the Cowra Shire Council. It was added to the New South Wales...
television programmes in both Australia and North America, including The CowraBreakout, Vietnam, Revenge, Roots and Netflix's What/If. Noyce's work has won...
last survivor of the CowraBreakout". "'I wanted to die': Last survivor of Australia's biggest prison breakout returns to Cowra". Special Broadcasting...
Excluded are shootings associated with acts of war, such as the 1944 Cowrabreakout, which saw over 200 soldiers killed. Also excluded are massacres of...
in 1981. He co-wrote and co-directed the Australian mini-series The CowraBreakout, wrote and directed five episodes of the mini-series, Vietnam, and made...
awarded the George Cross for manning a Vickers machine gun during the Cowrabreakout, a mass escape by Japanese prisoners of war in central New South Wales...
(1983), the seven-part series Bodyline (1984), the six-part series The CowraBreakout (1984), the ten-part series Vietnam (1987) with Nicole Kidman, the three-part...
Bodyline (1984), a miniseries produced for Network 10 Australia The CowraBreakout (1985), a miniseries produced for Network 10 Australia Vietnam (1987)...
who meets an escaped Japanese POW. The story is partly based on the Cowrabreakout of 1944. The film was the debut feature from Brad Haynes. Reviewing...
Year Title Role Notes 1984 The CowraBreakout Blackjack Devereaux Miniseries 1997–1998 ReBoot Ray Tracer Voice, 7 episodes 2001 The Wild Thornberrys Park...
Heartbreak High and Rafferty's Rules. He appeared in the TV mini-series The CowraBreakout (1984), A Waltz Through the Hills (1987), (for which he won an AFI Award...
Lee's television and film credits include Prisoner, Special Squad, The CowraBreakout, Murder Call, All Saints, Water Rats, Blue Heelers, McLeod's Daughters...
and would both be there until the camp’s closure. Christopher Hutton Cowrabreakout—at least 545 Japanese POWs escaped Hogan's Heroes, WW II-setting television...
"The Raj Quartet." 1985 1985 Australia The CowraBreakout Semi-fictional mini-series about the Cowrabreakout, August 1944 1985 1985 Italy Mussolini: The...
of Cowra in New South Wales, Australia, was the site of one of the largest prison escapes of the war, on 5 August 1944. During the Cowrabreakout and...
notable examples included The Dismissal, Bodyline, Eureka Stockade, The CowraBreakout, Vietnam, and Brides of Christ. The narratives of these miniseries often...
be re-buried at Cowra, which already featured a cemetery for the remains of 231 Japanese soldiers killed during the 1944 Cowrabreakout from the nearby...
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