We popped into the Visitor Info Centre to see a great hologram movie about the Cowra Breakout spoken from the perspective of a local girl. This was about the attempted breakout of 1200 Japanese soldiers in 1944 from the POW camp on the outskirts of Cowra. The Japanese felt humiliated they were captured and planned an escape at 2am. Unfortunately about 300 soldiers died, 250 injured and the rest captured during the ill fated breakout.
As part of a reconciliation and remembrance of these WWII atrocities, Japanese memorial Gardens have been lovingly designed nearby with tea houses, waterfalls, and of course relaxing and symbolic elements.
The kids fed the carp and we dodged the oldies on the golf carts.
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