An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942

The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement—the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February of 1942, the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten weeks earlier, the only difference being that more bombs fell on Darwin, more civilians were killed, and more ships were sunk. The raid led to the worst death toll from any event in Australia. The a...