Darwin 1942: The Japanese Attack on Australia (Osprey Campaign 304)
Darwin 1942: The Japanese Attack on Australia (Osprey Campaign 304)
2017 | ISBN: 1472816870 | English | 100 Pages | True PDF | 56 MB
2017 | ISBN: 1472816870 | English | 100 Pages | True PDF | 56 MB
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.