70th Anniversary of Japanese Attack on Darwin

From the Feb. 18th 7 News "Australia marks 70th anniversary of World War II bombing of Darwin."

This is one of two major WWII events over this past weekend that marked 70th anniversaries, the other was the beginning of Japanese Internment in the United States and I now know that the same thing took place in Canada.

This event is often referred to as Australia's Pearl Harbor. A Japanese surprise air attack on an unsuspecting harbor and military base. As a matter of fact, it was the same Japanese battle group that attacked Pearl Harbor. This was featured in the movie "Australia."

The attack took place February 19, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 243 and hundreds more were injured. It came right after the fall of Singapore.

A museum dedicated to the event opened this past weekend.

The USS Peary was also in the harbor and 89 sailors died. There is a memorial to the Peary in Darwin.

Another Sneak Attack. --GreGen