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TZIH: The Cowra Breakout - POWs On The Run In Country NSW

TZIH: The Cowra Breakout - POWs On The Run In Country NSW

All Aussie Hour · Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke and Melissa Mason

August 24, 20201h 10mExplicit

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Show Notes

This week, Mel explains the Cowra Breakout to Josie - when hundreds of Japanese POWs escaped an Aussie prison and ended up on the run in the bush.

Wanna skip le zest? Skip straight to 17:00.

CREDITS:

Cowra Fact Sheet, National Archives Of Australia

https://web.archive.org/web/20081010165202/http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs198.aspx

Australian War Memorial

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C389505?fbclid=IwAR3YxfLjK88heWybpXbS1MtXDsTcR_ojgI0eUUK7StAKnyBjyhYqvo1hAaY

News.com.au, LJ Charleston, 2019

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/cowra-prison-break-the-biggest-bloodiest-prison-breakout-in-wwii/news-story/640b85c799702a341c98b656f74f2911?fbclid=IwAR0ZMzQrqadmxCpYyPmSC6Z2xBx0JJ2Stayw_nkpvRaiO-XxAmroXbkdEwE

Touched With Fire, Eric Bergerud.

Japans Imperial Army, Edward J Drea 2009

Cowra Breakout Site Information Stands

From Consideration to Contempt: The Changing Nature of Japanese Military and Popular Perceptions of Prisoners of War Through the Ages (in Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II. Oxford: Berg, 1996, Ikuhiko Hata

West Coast Sentinel, Max Blenkin, 2019

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