On 5 August 1944, there was a large Allied prisoner-of-war camp in Cowlan, New South Wales, Australia, with prisoners of war from the evil Axis powers, but still dominated by the Japanese. The camp was divided into 4 zones, namely A, B, C, D, in zone B held more than 1,000 Japanese naval prisoners of war, although the two sides fought desperately on the battlefield, but after being captured, the Allies treated the prisoners of war quite well, providing them with food that was in line with their eating habits, and giving them a relaxed daily life.
At the beginning of August 1944, because the Allied prisoners of japanese troops more and more, the Kaulan POW camp has begun to accommodate a large number of prisoners of war, the Allies are ready to build a new prisoner of war camp, the officers continue to stay in the Kaolan POW camp, the new POW camp is basically received by ordinary soldiers, the Japanese PRISONERs of War who learned of this news soon panicked, don't look at them have become Allied prisoners of war, but it has to be said that the Japanese army has a strong sense of grouping, basically in the POW camp officers are still the main backbone of ordinary soldiers. The plan to separate them made them anxious, and the jailbreak plan was quickly revived.
The commander of this escape program was called Toshima Kazu, and at 2 a.m. on August 5, 1944, under the command of Toshima Kaoshima, the Japanese prisoners of war in Kaoran were divided into three groups and attacked in different directions. Because there were too many Japanese prisoners of war, they could not dig tunnels to escape like in the movie, and they could only attack in this almost death-defying way.
These Japanese prisoners of war shouted the slogan of "Long live", with various kitchen knives, baseball bats, etc. rushed to the camp of the Kaoran prisoner of war camp, although the Japanese troops who led the charge basically did not survive, including the command of Toshima Ichi, but because of the large number of defense points were still captured by japanese prisoners of war, the Japanese troops who took the defense points used various tools to pry open the barbed wire, and finally the remaining 545 people escaped from this prisoner of war camp! But did they really escape? Obviously, this was not the end, and these Japanese prisoners of war who escaped from the camp were soon dumbfounded, because this camp was in a vast area, surrounded by no human settlements, not even mountains and jungles, it was a Gobi, and it was difficult for the Allies to go out even if they were not caught in the absence of supplies.
The next day, the 545 Japanese prisoners of war were easily captured by the Allies, but there were not many left, and in the process of pursuit, 231 were killed, 108 wounded, and some of the remaining did not want to go back and committed suicide. The final result of this prison escape incident was that none of them ran away, and it was a good time to wait for the war to end, and there may be a chance to go back, but in the end, not many people can go back alive, and now the town of Kaolan has a huge Japanese garden invested and built by the Japanese, and the cemetery of japanese prisoners of war has become a Japanese sacrifice resort.