Mayor calls for Bombing of Darwin to be public holiday
Lord mayor Kon Vatskalis says the Bombing of Darwin should be recognised as a national holiday. SEE ARCHIVE PICTURES
Bombing Of Darwin
RAAF Centenary, post COVID, make for special ‘21 Anzac Day
COMMEMORATIONS for Anzac Day todayare expected to be bigger than ever, with the Territory the only jurisdiction in Australia to have a regular Dawn Service Ceremony not impacted by COVID-19
Legacy of Brian Jones remains at the heart of his family 50 years on
This year ANZAC Day will have more meaning than most years Trish Jones and her son Jason, marking 50 years since the passing of their husband and father Brian in the Vietnam War.
Bombing of Darwin veteran passes away aged 99
One of the three surviving Bombing of Darwin heroes passed away earlier this week.
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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
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
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
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
10 workmates killed at Post Office
RICHARD Corr was just going about his day-to-day duties in the Darwin Post Office when the first bombs fell on February 19, 1942
‘We thought it was a bomb’
HANNAH Seaman and her son Kai were on a hunt for seashells when they spotted this historic artefact at Lee Point Beach
Cop ‘threatened to carry mum away’
DARWIN resident Wendy James was six years old when a military policeman threatened to carry her mother over his shoulder when she refused to evacuate before war came to Australia
Bombing veteran recalls Darwin experience
“IT was an extremely hot place.” At 95, Alan Day proves himself to still be a master of understatement as he peers back three quarters of a century, to his life as a medical orderly in the Top End
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