The Cowra Breakout

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    7.0

    2

    April 16, 1985

    2h

    1 season

    4 episodes

    Synopsis

    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, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.

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    The Cowra Breakout

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    English, Japanese

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