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Yoshie Shiratori (白鳥 由栄, Shiratori Yoshie, July 31, 1907 – February 24, 1979) [1] was a Japanese national born in Aomori Prefecture.Shiratori is famous for having escaped from prison four different times.
Japanese POW cap, which was originally maroon, is the only known clothing relic from the Cowra POW camp The Japanese Garden in 2004 Harry Doncaster Memorial. In the first week of August 1944, a tip-off from an informer (recorded in some sources to be a Korean informant using the name Matsumoto) [3] at Cowra led authorities to plan to move all Japanese POWs at Cowra, except officers and NCOs ...
They reached Japan after four months on the run, but only returned to Germany two years after the end of the war. [24] August 5, 1944 – Cowra breakout, Australia. 359 Japanese POWs escaped in one of the largest breakouts of the war. All who were not killed or did not commit suicide were caught.
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US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people, has been booked into a federal prison in Los Angeles following his ...
In his second escape from the prison, he escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower area to a home construction site 1.5 km (0.9 mi) away in a Santa Juanita neighborhood. The tunnel was 1.7 m (5.7 ft) tall and 75 cm (30 in) in width. It was equipped with artificial light, air conditioning, and high-quality construction materials. [102]
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The Japanese shifted most of the prisoners to other areas, leaving just over 500 American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison. Facing brutal conditions including disease, torture, and malnourishment, the prisoners feared they would be executed by their captors before the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur and his American forces ...