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- English
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About this book
On 19 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 (17th Governor-General of Australia) later described as 'a day of national shame'. The sequence of events in Darwin that day certainly did not reflect the military honour that the War Cabinet wanted people to believe. On the contrary, for what really happened was a combination of chaos, panic and, in many cases, cowardice on an unprecented scale.
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Index
Abbott, C.L.A., 10, 11, 17, 117, 121-2, 133, 135, 136-43, 160-1, 163, 164, 167, 170-1, 177-80, 194, 200, 202, 203, 215-16
Abbott, Hilda, 137, 139-40, 142
Aboriginals, 10-11, 122, 126-7, 129, 138
Acland, B., 27, 28, 163, 197
Adelaide, 10-11, 185
Adelaide River, 10, 99, 121, 124-5, 132, 135-6, 160, 163
Admiral Halstead, 46
Akagi, 19
Aldeman, H.G., 199-200
Alice Springs, 10, 134, 140, 163, 202
Ambon (see also Celebes), 9, 17, 106
Ambrose, Captain Lewis, 208
anti-aircraft defences, 55, 64, 90, 104-5, 124, 208
A.W.A., 21, 28-9
Bailey, Ernest, 94-5
Bald, Alice, 23
Bald, Iris, 23, 24, 117
Bald, Hurtle, 23, 24, 116-17, 128
Bald, Peter, 23
bank managers, 133-4
Barossa, 48-9, 176
Barrie, John, K.C., 59, 141-3, 161, 189, 199, 202, 204
Batchelor, 92, 99
Bathurst Island, 11, 19, 20, 21, 51, 52, 54, 63, 86, 93, 110
Beaufighter aircraft, 104
Bell, Flight Lieutenant Colin, 190
Bennett, General Gordon, 213-4
Bermingham, Lieutentant Commander, J.M., 38
Berrimah, 123-5, 215
Blake, Major-General David, 35, 58-9, 94, 98-9, 105, 111, 113, 121-2, 134, 136, 139, 143, 161, 166-8, 189, 193, 194, 200, 216
Bleeser, Florenz, 165
Blow, Lorraine, 42-3
Bostock, Air Vice Marshal Willi...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- The Warning
- The Attack on the Harbour
- The Mistakes
- The Attack on the Aerodrome
- The Defenceless Town
- The Confusing Day
- Exodus
- The Looting
- Who Needs Civil Defence?
- The Brisbane Line
- The Royal Commission
- Broome – A Familiar Story
- Epilogue
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index