The rural Australian town of Cowra on Monday commemorated 80 years since hundreds of Japanese World War II prisoners of war made a daring attempt to escape from an internment camp in the small town.Just before 2 a.m., a commemorative event on the former campsite in the New South Wales town recreated the moments leading up to the mass escape attempt, known as the Cowra Breakout, on Aug. 5, 1944, including the firing of two warning shots and flares into the sky.The ceremony was attended by family members of the former prisoners of war, Japan's Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasushi Hosak…READ FULL ARTICLE
