On the 19th of February 1942, the Japanese came in with their airplanes and land-based bombers to bomb Darwin. This attack on Darwin happened 10 weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor under the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida. The Japanese had 54 land-based bombers and around 188 attack aircraft which were launched from 4 Japanese aircraft carriers in the Timor Sea. On Darwin’s Harbour there were 46 ships docked there yet the boats couldn’t prevent the attack from the Japanese having around 900 Australians and its allied people lost its life in one day. Darwin was said to be bombed 64 times by the same people everywhere in Darwin. The first attack on Darwin kept going around 40 minutes with the Japanese attacking post office, broadcast office,
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The Japanese came with 10 aircraft at 9:30am without warning destroying Broome’s airfield and the flying boats refuelling near Roebuck Bay by the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida and left at 10:30. The attack lasted around an hour with them destroying 16 flying boats, 6 aircraft on the ground and shot down DC-3 Landen carrying refugees and parcel of diamonds going towards Broome and had to crash land in shallows north of the town with an estimate of 70-140 people being killed or injured. The victims that were killed would be buried but in 1950 they were moved to Perth War Cemetery at Karrakatta. The place that the Japanese aircraft attack was a civilian staging post for air refugees from Java and Dutch East Indies that were civilians or in the military. The refugees came here by Dutch, American and Australian military and civil aircraft. The town was “overflowing”1 with around 8,000 evacuees coming to Broome to “continue their journey south”2. The reason the Japanese bombed Broome was to stop the refugees from escaping or traveling south but when the refugees left the air field on the day, the Japanese shot them down leaving the aircraft in the shallows of Roebuck Bay so after the war, the aircrafts submerged underwater until today. 6 of the 15 bombed flying boats are sitting on the mud-flats in Roebuck Bay because of low water spring tides serving as a reminder of the horror in the
The Japanese came with 10 aircraft at 9:30am without warning destroying Broome’s airfield and the flying boats refuelling near Roebuck Bay by the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida and left at 10:30. The attack lasted around an hour with them destroying 16 flying boats, 6 aircraft on the ground and shot down DC-3 Landen carrying refugees and parcel of diamonds going towards Broome and had to crash land in shallows north of the town with an estimate of 70-140 people being killed or injured. The victims that were killed would be buried but in 1950 they were moved to Perth War Cemetery at Karrakatta. The place that the Japanese aircraft attack was a civilian staging post for air refugees from Java and Dutch East Indies that were civilians or in the military. The refugees came here by Dutch, American and Australian military and civil aircraft. The town was “overflowing”1 with around 8,000 evacuees coming to Broome to “continue their journey south”2. The reason the Japanese bombed Broome was to stop the refugees from escaping or traveling south but when the refugees left the air field on the day, the Japanese shot them down leaving the aircraft in the shallows of Roebuck Bay so after the war, the aircrafts submerged underwater until today. 6 of the 15 bombed flying boats are sitting on the mud-flats in Roebuck Bay because of low water spring tides serving as a reminder of the horror in the