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Cowra breakout

1944 CE · Australia, Oceania · War

Cowra breakout
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The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a POW camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia. It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest.

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