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Bombing Of Darwin
Thousands commemorate Bombing of Darwin 79 years on
WITH the roar of fighter jets, the crack of machine gun fire and plumes of smoke filling the air, several thousand people yesterday had a taste of what it must have been like when the first Japanese bombs fell on Darwin – and war first came to Australia – on February 19, 1942.
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