The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cowra, NSW. 6 August 1945. An oblique aerial view of Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) camp taken the day after the escape attempt by Japanese POWs. The buildings in the foreground are the camp Headquarters and include recreation huts, mess huts, sleeping quarters, work huts and a goal. The POW camp consisted of four compounds and is to the top right. The large compound near the Headquarters area is A Compound for Italian POWs, moving clockwise is B Compound for Japanese Other Ranks, C Compound for Italian POWs, and D Compound for Japanese Officers, as well as Formosans and Koreans. The camp hospital was separately wired off within B Compound. (Donor L. Boorman)
Cowra, NSW. 6 August 1945. An oblique aerial view of Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) camp taken the day after the escape attempt by Japanese POWs. The buildings in the foreground are the camp Headquarters
Aerial photographs of Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) camp taken the day after the escape attempt by Japanese POWs. The buildings at the top are AMF Company Compounds and include recreation huts, mess hut
Cowra, NSW. 6 August 1945. An oblique aerial view of B Compound within Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) camp taken the day after the escape attempt by Japanese POWs. The buildings to the left are the hospi
A hand drawn map of the Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) camp, showing the Group Headquarters buildings (left) and the four separate POW compounds. The black huts within Compound B are those that were burn
Clothes and blankets, used as protection against the barbed wire, hanging over the perimeter fencing around B Compound of the Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) Camp immediately after the escape attempt by 1
Clothes and blankets, used as protection against the barbed wire, hanging over the perimeter fencing around B Compound of the Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) Camp immediately after the escape attempt by 1
