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The opportunity presented itself to the Japanese POWs. The Japanese prisoners were informed they would be transferred to the prison complex at Hay, in western New South Wales. This gave them the opportunity to organise a breakout. Around 2am on 5 August 1944, an unauthorized bugle signal sounded for the Japanese prisoners to rush from their huts and attack the fences of the compound. Around 900 Japanese joined in the attack, and those who didn't were killed by their compatriots, or they committed suicide. They stormed the outer barbed wire fence using blankets and Baseball gloves for protection, armed with knives, baseball bats, clubs studded with nails and hooks, wire stilettos and garotting cords.
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The Cowra Breakout
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What was the drama about an Australian who befriends a Japanese p.o.w.?
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