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Darwin 1942: the Japanese attack on Australia

By Jim , Alford , Bob;Laurier

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
9781472816894, 1472816897
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
50 MB (52309919 bytes)
Series
Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 304
Pages
96 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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.

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