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Darwin 1942
Bob Alford
其他書名
The Japanese attack on Australia
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017-02-23
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Pacific TheaterHistory / Military / Aviation & SpaceHistory / Australia & New ZealandHistory / Asia / JapanHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / Military / General
ISBN14728168899781472816887
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Lla6DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.