Eighty-four years after Darwin was bombed in the single largest foreign attack ever mounted on Australian soil, hundreds of people have gathered to remember.
The artwork, part of the Darwin Street Art Festival, coincides with the launch of a national marketing push timed to the 84th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin this week. Darwin Street Art Festival ...
Territorians are encouraged to remember and honour the memory of those who helped defend our shores at the 84th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin. On February 19, 1942, Darwin became the frontline.
Today marks 84 years since the first and largest attack by a foreign power on Australian soil. In 1942 Japanese aircraft bombed Darwin and then northern Australia in a series of raids. Alongside this ...
The numbers associated with the 1942 attack on Darwin – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern Australia was involved in World War II. Today we commemorate the 84th ...
On February 19, 1942, Darwin became the frontline. In the first and largest foreign attack ever mounted on Australian soil, 242 Japanese aircraft launched two devastating air raids on our harbour, ...
Today we commemorate the 84th anniversary of the first air raid on Australia and those that lost their lives. Two hundred and thirty six is the number of deaths of Australians – and 128 of those were ...