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Bombing Of Darwin
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SEE VIDEO: 101-year-old veteran remembers Bombing of Darwin
THE Bombing of Darwin is now 80 years ago, but for surviving 101-year-old veteran Brian Winspear, memories of that day are as vivid as if they were yesterday.
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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
Darwin bombing raids number ‘much higher’
STARTLING new research has found that the number of air raids on Darwin and the Top End is much higher than history has recorded it
Legend of the naked gunner
BULLETS sliced the air around Wilbert “Darky” Hudson as he stood in the middle of the battlefield – far more exposed than his fully clothed comrades.
Lest we forget NT’s darkest hour
HELL rained down upon Darwin on February 19, 1942, and those still alive to remember the horror are preparing to make the pilgrimage back to ground zero
The NT at war: the civilian impact
FOR civilians in the Territory in World War II, it was a time of unrelenting hardship and tough work
‘Shrapnel fell from sky like rain’
Barry Greenwood will never forget the sounds of bombs falling on Darwin
Bombing of Darwin boosted resolve to fight on
The Bombing of Darwin brought World War II to Australian shores, but it also rallied a nation and strengthened its resolve to never surrender
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