The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia...
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Darwin 1942 is a 1986 Australian TV movie about the bombing of Darwin. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996...
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Darwin (Larrakia: Garramilla)[better source needed] is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's...
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1st Air Fleet (redirect from 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy)
strength of 103 level bombers, 128 dive bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 88 fighter planes, plus 91 planes for a total of 441 planes. The Bombing of Darwin on 19 February...
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Australian city of Darwin was home to a Chinatown when "... 186 Chinese workers arrived in 1874 by ship from Singapore, until World War II." In Darwin, the Chinese...
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July 2023. AWM (1990). "Bombing of Darwin". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 5 March 2024. AWM, (1990). Bombing of Darwin. Australian War Memorial...
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RAAF Base Darwin (IATA: DRW, ICAO: YPDN) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base located in the city of Darwin, in the Northern Territory...
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Australia (2008 film) (category Bombing of Darwin)
backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin during World War II. Production took place in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra...
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The Darwin oil storage tunnels were built during World War II to protect the oil stored in the Australian city of Darwin from Japanese bombing. They are...
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Duchess". Despite surviving the Bombing of Darwin and Cyclone Tracy, the hotel was demolished in 1999. A bar at the rear of the original site formerly known...
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Oly Carlson (category Place of birth missing (living people))
arrived in Darwin in 1937 and survived the Japanese Bombing of Darwin in 1942. She previously worked for the Commonwealth Bank in Darwin. "'A remarkable...
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Australia (continent) (redirect from Continent of Australia)
Waiko. Short History of Papua New Guinea (1993) "Papua New Guinea". State.gov. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2011. "Bombing of Darwin: 70 years on – ABC...
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Hajime Toyoshima (category Bombing of Darwin)
before departing on February 15. Toyoshima took part of the February 19, 1942, Japanese air-raid on Darwin, Australia. His Zero, tail code BII-124, was launched...
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Chūichi Nagumo (category Battle of Midway)
success as a fleet commander at the Bombing of Darwin and at the Indian Ocean raid on the Eastern Fleet, the latter of which sank an aircraft carrier, two...
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strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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of Darwin details the city's growth from a fledgling settlement into a thriving colonial capital and finally a modern city. The Aboriginal people of the...
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Bathurst Island (Northern Territory) (category Islands of Western Australia)
Herald. Review of Carrier Attack: Darwin 1942 (2013), by Tom Lewis and Peter Ingman. Retrieved 20 February 2021. "The Bombing of Darwin". The Battle for...
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USS Peary (category Ships sunk in the bombing of Darwin, 1942)
resting place in the harbor. In the words of Peter Grose, author of An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942, "The doomed yet magnificent...
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Australia (redirect from Commonwealth of Australia)
Middle East theatres. The shock of Britain's defeat in Singapore in 1942, followed soon after by the bombing of Darwin and other Japanese attacks on Australian...
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Japanese air raids on Australia (redirect from Bombing of Townsville)
night of 31 July when a single flying boat dropped a bomb which exploded near a house outside of Mossman, injuring a child. 19 Bombing of Darwin (10:00)...
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youtube, The Bombing Of Darwin - 19 Feb 1942 youtube, WW2 Bombing Of Darwin youtube, American naval fleet welcomed in Australia Photo gallery of USS Holland...
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Fujita salvage operation (category Ships sunk in the bombing of Darwin, 1942)
conducted dive bombing and level bombing attacks on the ships in Darwin Harbour. These attacks lasted for 30 minutes and resulted in the sinking of three warships...
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Government House is the office and official residence of the Administrator of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia. Built between 1870 and 1871, with later...
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Bombing of Darwin, the first and largest raids, on 19 February 1942 Raid on Darwin (2 May 1943), the final raid, on 2 May 1943 For a complete list of...
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Tamon Yamaguchi (category Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class)
in this capacity directed a saturation bombing campaign in central China through 1940, including the Bombing of Chongqing. In November 1940, Yamaguchi...
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HMAS Deloraine (category Bathurst-class corvettes of the Royal Australian Navy)
north-west of Darwin and was jointly credited with the submarine's sinking after inflicting the initial damage. She was present at the bombing of Darwin and...
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Peter Finch (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
during the Bombing of Darwin. During his war service Finch was given leave to act in radio, theatre and film. He appeared in a number of propaganda shorts...
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that resonated with Darwin history and decided to depict something from the Bombing of Darwin, so the boat on the new logo is that of HMAS Mavie a 19-ton...
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gov.au. Retrieved 2024-05-22. "Bombing of Darwin". City of Darwin. 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023. "Bombing of Darwin: 70 years on – ABC News (Australian...
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The 2010 Darwin shopping centre bombing was an incident which occurred on 3 February 2010 at the CBD Plaza shopping centre, located at 47 Cavenagh Street...
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