Darwin 1942 : the Japanese attack on Australia

Resource Information

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Label

Darwin 1942 : the Japanese attack on Australia

Title remainder

the Japanese attack on Australia

Statement of responsibility

Bob Alford ; illustrated by Jim Laurier

Title variation

Japanese attack on Australia

Creator

• Alford, Bob

Contributor

• Laurier, Jim

Author

• Alford, Bob

Illustrator

• Laurier, Jim

Subject

• Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942 -- Pictorial works
• Darwin (N.T.) -- History | Bombardment, 1942 -
• Darwin (N.T.) -- History, Military
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian | History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia | Darwin (N.T.)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Northern Territory | Darwin
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Northern Territory | Darwin -- Aerial operations, Japanese
• Aerial bombings -- Northern Territory | Darwin
• Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942

Genre

• Pictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY. AUSTRALIAN. 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

Member of

• Campaign (Osprey Publishing), 304

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

940.5426

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D767.82

LC item number

.A44 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Campaign

Series volume

304