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...

to commemorate the breakout, involving local school students, council members, local dignitaries and guest Japanese visitors. Cowra has a number of heritage-listed...

The Cowra Breakout is a 1984 Australian mini series based on the Cowra breakout, focusing on the friendship between an Australian soldier and Japanese...

rural New South Wales, Toyoshima was one of the instigators of the Cowra breakout, sounding a bugle to signal the commencement of the escape, and died...

to 1944. It was the location of the infamous Cowra breakout in 1944. The property is owned by the Cowra Shire Council. It was added to the New South Wales...

showed during the Cowra breakout, on 5 August 1944, when Japanese prisoners of war staged a mass escape from a prisoner-of-war camp at Cowra, New South Wales...

miniseries for Australian television including The Dismissal (1983) and The Cowra Breakout (1984). In 1987, Miller directed The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack...

Excluded are shootings associated with acts of war, such as the 1944 Cowra breakout, which saw over 200 soldiers killed. Also excluded are massacres of...

last survivor of the Cowra Breakout". "'I wanted to die': Last survivor of Australia's biggest prison breakout returns to Cowra". Special Broadcasting...

battalion, he was posted to Cowra as part of the prisoner of war camp garrison which had been reinforced after the Cowra breakout on 5 August 1944. He was...