The Cowra breakout: remembering Australia's biggest prison escape 75 years on

By Rebecca Hausler
August 10 2019 - 11:00am
The burial of some of the Japanese prisoners of war who lost their lives in the mass outbreak from B Camp, (the Japanese section), at No. 12 Prisoner Of War compound in the early hours of August 5, 1944. Picture: Australian War Memorial
The burial of some of the Japanese prisoners of war who lost their lives in the mass outbreak from B Camp, (the Japanese section), at No. 12 Prisoner Of War compound in the early hours of August 5, 1944. Picture: Australian War Memorial

August 5 marks the 75th anniversary of Australia's largest prison escape: the Cowra breakout, in New South Wales, during the second world war.

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