Category: Escape Attempt

• The Largest POW Escape of World War II: The Cowra Breakout. August 5, 1944.

  

  Image: 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. More than 1,000 Japanese men were…

  August 5, 2024

  1940s, Australia, Australian Soldiers, Cowra POW Camp, Death, Escape Attempt, History Daily, Japanese POWs, World War II

  1940s, Australia, Australian Soldiers, Cowra POW Camp, Death, Escape Attempts, History Daily, Japanese POWs, World War II