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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.
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]
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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A view of the memorial from the south, showing the harbor in the background. The Seattle–Bainbridge Ferry terminal is on the other side of the harbor.. Japanese immigrants first came to Bainbridge Island in the 1880s, working in sawmills and strawberry harvesting, and by the 1940s had become an integral part of the island's community.
Iwao Hakamada — who is believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate — has been acquitted 58 years after his arrest. Per local reports, Hakamada's death sentence was finalized in ...
While serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison in 1979 and reappeared in Cuba in 1984 where she was granted political asylum. The FBI added her to its list of most-wanted terrorists as Joanne Deborah Chesimard, [ 98 ] and a total of $2 million is being offered for her capture (The FBI is offering $1 million and the New Jersey Attorney ...
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 ...