1st Edition

Darwin 1942 (RLE World War II in Asia)

By Timothy Hall Copyright 1980
198 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

On Wednesday 18 February 1942 the Japanese air force bombed Darwin. Whilst this fact is well known, very few people know exactly what happened. Timothy Hall was the first writer to be given acess to all the official reports of the time and as a result he has been able to reveal exactly what happened on that dreadful day – a day which Sir Paul Hasluck (17 th Governor-General of Australia) later... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Prologue 3. The Warning 4. The Attack on the Harbour 5. The Mistakes 6. The Attack on the Aerodrome 7. The Defenceless Town 8. The Confusing Day 9. Exodus 10. The Looting 11. Who Needs Civil Defence? 12. The Brisbane Line 13. The Royal Commission 14. Broome – A Familiar Story 15. Epilogue 16. Bibliography and Sources. Index

Biography

Hall, Timothy