Almost 100 people gathered on Monday, just before 2 a.m. in nearly freezing temperatures, to remember the moment over 1,000 Japanese World War II prisoners of war attempted to escape from an internment camp in the rural Australian town of Cowra.Known as the Cowra Breakout, the Aug. 5, 1944 escape attempt was the largest prison break staged in modern military history, and led to the only land battle fought on Australian soil during WWII.Of the 2,223 Japanese soldiers housed in the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp, 1,104 stormed its gates, armed with baseball bats and sharpened table knives. The pr…READ FULL ARTICLE
