

EPISODE
The Cowra Breakout - Season 1
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.















13 February 1958, Peekskill, New York, USA


September 18, 1949 in Aichi, Japan

January 14, 1955 in Tokyo, Japan



1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

March 16, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


1957 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

April 5, 1939 in England, UK