Author: Northern Territory Government.
Title: The Territory Remembers 75 Years : Commemorating the Bombing of Darwin and Defence of Northern Australia.
Description: First Edition; Square Demy 4to; pp. 110; text illustrated with numerous photographs including several pages of coloured photographs, bound in original white boards, title lettered in silver on front, good copy. Darwin; Northern Territory Government; 2017. On 19th February 1942, Australia came under air attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked Darwin in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using it as a base. 235 people were killed in the two raids, and more than 400 were wounded, 30 aircraft were destroyed, nine ships were sunk in Darwin harbour and two outside, and many civil and military facilities in Darwin were damaged. This book provides a visual record of that time through photographs, some depicting the devastation of war brought to Northern Australia, while others capture how life was for so many during this time.

Keywords: australian military northern territory local history second world war japan