The Cowra Breakout: The only WWII battle fought in Australia
The Cowra Breakout: The only WWII battle fought in Australia Part of Footsteps in the Pacific Week on WW2TV • Footsteps in the Pacific Week POW and Internment Camps • POW and Internment Camps in WWII More Australian and New Zealand content • Australia and New Zealand in WWII Today we will hear the riveting story of a missing piece of Australia’s history. In the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. By August 1944, over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged one of the largest prison breakouts in history, launching the only land battle of World War II to be fought on Australian soil. Five Australian soldiers and more than 230 Japanese POWs would die during what became known as The Cowra Breakout. Our guest is Mat McLachlan, one of Australia’s leading war historians and battlefield guides who appears regularly as a historian on the ABC, The History Channel, Channel 7’s Sunrise and Radio 2GB. https://battlefields.com.au/ / matmclachlan Mat's YouTube channel / livinghistorytv Buy the book: UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978073... USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97807336... Additional resources: The Canowindra Historical Society & Museum https://www.canowindrahistory.com/ / canowindrahistory More Photos https://ehive.com/collections/5231/ca... The Cowra Japanese Garden https://www.cowragarden.com.au/ The Monument to Harry Doncaster https://monumentaustralia.org.au/them... You can become a YouTube Member and support us here / @ww2tv You can become a Patron here / ww2tv Please click subscribe for updates Social Media links - / ww2tv / ww2tv / ww2tv WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV
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