The Cowra Breakout
Air Date: 4/16/1985
Imdb: tt0135848
Popularity: 20.272
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Last Aired: 4/23/1985 12:00:00AM
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Status: Ended
Seasons: 1 - Info
Networks: Network Ten

Overview: 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.