The Cowra Breakout

Release date : 1985-04-16

Production country :

Production company :

Kennedy Miller Productions

Network :

10

Status : Ended

Total Season : 1

Total episode : 4

Popularity : 0.8649

7 Total Vote : 2

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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.