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02-19-2012, 02:21 PM
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CELEBRATION TIME
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19 February 1942
Darwin, 1942: Remembering Australia's 'Pearl Harbor'
By Duncan Kennedy BBC News, Darwin Duncan Kennedy meets survivors of the attack on Darwin It's 70 years since Japanese bombers swooped on Darwin, in northern Australia, sinking Allied ships in the harbour and killing hundreds of people. For years the attack was rarely mentioned, but now the story is finally being told. If 7 December 1941 is "a date that will live in infamy" for the United States, then 19 February 1942 is surely one that will join it in the annals of shame for Australia. That was the day, just 10 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the same carrier-based Japanese force turned its attention to the small northern town of Darwin, with equally calamitous results. But the world remembers one and barely recalls the other. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17073472 |
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