Darwin 1942

The Japanese attack on Australia

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Darwin 1942

The Japanese attack on Australia

Description

A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942 – the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.

Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not 'if'.

On 19 February, just eleven weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor and two weeks after the fall of Singapore, the same Japanese battle group that had attacked Hawaii was ordered to attack the ill-prepared and under-defended Australian port of Darwin.

Publishing 75 years after this little-known yet devastating attack, this fully illustrated study details what happened on that dramatic day in 1942 with the help of contemporary photographs, maps, and profiles of the commanders and machines involved in the assault.

Table of Contents

Origins of the campaign
Chronology

Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Orders of battle
Opposing plans
The campaign

Aftermath
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index

Product details

Published 23 Feb 2017
Format Ebook (Epub)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472816894
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 70 b/w; 12 col
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 304
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Bob Alford

Bob Alford was raised at Bacchus Marsh in the stat…

Illustrator

Jim Laurier

Jim Laurier is a native of New England and lives i…

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