What the records say
- When
- 5 Aug 1944
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 235
- Coordinates
- 33.81° S, 148.70° E
- Description
- escape attempt by Japanese prisoners of war in 1944
- Injured
- 112
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Cowra breakout: Over 500 Japanese prisoners of war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra camp in Australia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les prisonniers japonais tentent de s’évader du camp de Cowra, en Australie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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