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Bombing Of Darwin

World War II Darwin Tunnels, Australia Underground Museum introduces its first ADFA MAN Experience in Darwin Waterfront.Robert Marchant and Garret Benson Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

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Immersive tour into Darwin’s ’top secret’ underground history

Darwin’s World War Two history has a new 21st century take with an immersive AR tour of the old fuel storage tunnels. SEE THE VIDEO.

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Divers on a documentation trip to Japanese WW2 wreck of I -124.Picture: Steve Trewavas/Major Projects Australia

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WATCH: Darwin doco offers deep dive into WWII history

A documentary team surfaced the secrets of a WWII submarine in Darwin’s waters. Watch the film here.

Consul-General of Japan Shuichi Tokuda said Japan and Australia were on course for peace and reconciliation at the I-124 submarine memorial. Picture: Sierra Haigh

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‘Common humanity’: Submariners’ memorial sets course for peace

Sand from the ocean floor where 80 Japanese submariners remain entombed has been spread at a Darwin memorial in the ongoing journey toward peace.

An unidentified sailor on board HMAS Platypus watches smoke bollowing from MV Neptuna after she was destroyed during the first Japanese air raid on Darwin. Picture: Australian War Memorial.

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Inside astonishing Darwin bombing story

Extraordinary footage captured on a smuggled camera tells a new story of the bombing of Darwin 81 years later.

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Bombing of Darwin Magazing - Major Simon Harvey, Corporal Owen Brady and Vietnam Veterans Association NT vice-president Bob Shewring outside of the WW2 East Point, Gun Turret.

Territory’s war story needs to be told

Three diggers, two serving and one retired, meet to discuss the Territory’s important role in World War II — and how little Australia still knows about it

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Cultures collide in amazing war story

Hajime Toyoshima was destined to go down in history, though perhaps not in the way he imagined

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75th Bombing of Darwin Memorial Service, Bicentennial Park, The Esplanade........ veteran Keith Williams

Darwin bombing forged NT resilience

THE resilient Territory spirit was born the day Darwin was bombed Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim told the 75th anniversary marking the event

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75th Bombing of Darwin Memorial Service, Bicentennial Park, The Esplanade........ Diggers

Standing ovation for war veterans

AUSTRALIA’S war veterans were greeted with a rousing applause and a standing ovation as they stood to lay a wreath below the Darwin Cenotaph.

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Depiction of 1942 events firing on enemy aircraft and protecting Darwin's border for the 75th Bombing of Darwin Memorial Service on the Esplanade.

Bombing of Darwin 75th anniversary

Politicians, dignitaries and veterans attended the Bombing of Darwin 75th anniversary commemoration in the Northern Territory capital

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The Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove addressing the 50th Anniversary of Battle of Long Tan Parliamentary reception for Vietnam veterans at Parliament House, Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

USS Peary sailors remembered at service

HUNDREDS of people attended a service in Darwin this morning to commemorate the 88 sailors who lost their lives on the USS Peary 75 years ago today

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Inside a World War 2 ammunition storage facility at Charles Darwin National Park.

Darwin’s secret underground shelters

STILL hidden within the hilly terrain and dense bushland are a network of bomb storage shelters that reveal a desperate cat-and-mouse tale of hide and seek from Japanese bombers

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07/02/2017 Peter and wife Berry Hackett at Port Kennedy. Peter Hackett served in the 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery in Darwin in 1942 and through several of the Japanese air raids. He barely made it to Darwin after falling into a coma due to septicaemia from a minor finger injury sustained while on the train heading up. He is currently blind due to his service and missing one eye due to cancers caused while staring into the Darwin skies looking for enemy activity. He worked alongside Wilbur

Veteran proud to share Darwin story

ON Christmas morning, 1941, Peter Hackett slipped into a coma as the Ghan pulled into Oodnadatta.It was not the ideal start to his active service as a gunner

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Brian Winspear joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a navigator and Hudson wireless air gunner in 1939 at the age of 19 and was stationed in Kupang on 18 February 1942.

The day bloody hell rained down

One of the last surviving World War II veterans to witness the Darwin bombings says the diggers involved never got the recognition they deserved

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Onearthur � Arthur Wellington, a postal worker who answered the call to come to Darwin, despite the danger. Picture: SUPPLIED

Life changed forever as bombers circled

As Arthur Wellington put pen to paper in the eve of February 18, 1942, he would have never predicted how life would change for his family the following morning

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