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

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, 2019See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.