Entry Text: | LOCKWOOD, Douglas W. Australia’s Pearl Harbor: Darwin, 1942. xv, 232p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cassell Australia, 1966.
The story of the first, little-known but devastating attack on Australian soil ten weeks after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese air strike sank eight ships and killed 250 people. A revised edition was published in 1967 (ISBN: 0851793746) and republished by New Holland in 2005 as Australia Under Attack: The Bombing of Darwin 1942 (ISBN: 1741102693). |
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