Around 2:00 a.m. on August 5, 1944, the freezing night air of the New South Wales central west was shattered by a sound that would haunt the town of Cowra for generations. A bugle call, high and piercing, signaled the beginning of the largest prison escape in the history of World War II. In an […]

At approximately 2:00 a.m. on August 5, 1944, a lone Japanese prisoner of war at the Cowra internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, climbed a perimeter fence in a state of visible distress. An Australian guard later recalled that the man was "weeping and appeared to be in great fear." Two warning shots were […]

At approximately 2:00 a.m. on August 5, 1944, a haunting scene unfolded at the Cowra prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in the quiet wheat-belt of New South Wales, Australia. A lone Japanese prisoner approached the perimeter fence, not with the stealth of a saboteur, but with the visible agony of a man possessed. He was weeping, his […]