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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
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manned the No. 2 Vickers machine-gun and began firing into the first wave of escapees. They were soon overwhelmed by a wave of Japanese prisoners who had breached the lines of barbed wire fences. Before dying, Private Hardy managed to remove and throw away the gun's
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During the escape and subsequent round-up of POWs, four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed and 108 prisoners were wounded. The leaders of the breakout ordered the escapees not to attack Australian civilians, and none were killed or injured.
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military personnel and civilians were detained throughout World War II. The prisoners at Cowra also included 2,000 Italians, Koreans and Taiwanese (who had served in the Japanese military) as well as Indonesian civilians, detained at the request of the
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A fifth Australian, Thomas Roy Hancock of C Company 26 Battalion V.D.C. was accidentally shot by another volunteer while dismounting from a vehicle, in the process of deploying to protect railways and bridges from the escapees. Hancock later died of
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Some 359 POWs escaped, while some others attempted or committed suicide, or were killed by their countrymen. Some of those who did escape also committed suicide to avoid recapture. All the survivors were recaptured within 10 days of their breakout.
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At about 2 a.m. a Japanese inmate ran to the camp gates and shouted what seemed to be a warning to the sentries. Then a Japanese bugle sounded. A sentry fired a warning shot. More sentries fired as three mobs of prisoners, shouting
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In the first week of August 1944, a tip-off from an informer (recorded in some sources to be a Korean informant using the name Matsumoto) at Cowra led authorities to plan to move all Japanese POWs at Cowra, except officers and
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No complaints regarding treatment had been made by or on behalf of the Japanese before the incident, which appeared to have been the result of a premeditated and concerted plan;
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Situated some 314 km (195 mi) due west of Sydney, Cowra is the town nearest to No. 12 Prisoner of War Compound, a major POW camp where 4,000
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The actions of the Australian garrison in resisting the attack averted a greater loss of life, and firing ceased as soon as they regained control;
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Many of the dead had committed suicide or been killed by other prisoners, and many of the Japanese wounded had suffered self-inflicted wounds.
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Reconsidering the Cowra Breakout of 1944: From the Viewpoints of Survived Japanese Prisoners of War and Their 'Everyday Lives' in the Camp
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Graves at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra; many of those on the side nearest the camera are for people killed in the breakout.
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Australia continued to operate No. 12 Camp until the last Japanese and Italian prisoners were repatriated in 1947.
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By August 1944, there were 2,223 Japanese POWs in Australia, including 544 merchant seamen. There were also 14,720
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The last survivor of the breakout attempt, Teruo Murakami, died in Japan on September 14 2023.
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The government conducted an official inquiry into the events. Its conclusions were read to the
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based on an escapee who hid in the nearby Aboriginal mission until the end of the war.
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Die like the carp : the story of the greatest prison escape ever / Harry Gordon
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On That Day, Our Lives Were Lighter Than Toilet Paper: The Great Cowra Breakout
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in New Zealand, in February 1943, led to security being tightened at Cowra.
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Die like the Carp: The Story of the Greatest Prison Escape Ever
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Within minutes of the start of the breakout attempt, Privates
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In the words of historian Gavin Long, the following night:
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Dead men rising / [by] Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie
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prisoners, the majority of whom had been captured in the
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Shooting and Friendship over Japanese Prisoners of War
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Although the POWs were treated in accordance with the
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Voyage from Shame: The Cowra Breakout and Afterwards
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to augment the rifles carried by the members of the
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Cowra
New South Wales
Australia
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33°48′41″S 148°42′14″E / 33.81139°S 148.70389°E / -33.81139; 148.70389
Japanese
POWs
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