The Cowra Breakout
DVD
250 min
1984
Published on, 1 year ago
The Cowra Breakout
DVD
250 min
1984
Published on, 1 year ago
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.
