WHAT HAPPENED IN AUSTRALIA ON THIS DATE 14 JUNE. 1942: DARWIN BOMBED ..Bombers from the Japanese 23rd Air Flotilla based on Timor, attacked Darwin, NT. During this series of raids the RAN Victualling Yard was heavily hit. ..The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II. ..Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, during or immediately after the attack. The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–43. After the 19 February 1942 Japanese raid, the Northern Territory and parts of Western Australia's north were bombed approximately 100 times between 4 March 1942 and 12 November 1943. One of the heaviest attacks took place on 16 June 1942 when a Japanese force set fire to the oil fuel tanks around the harbour and inflicted severe damage to the vacant banks, stores and railway yards. The Allied navies largely abandoned the naval base at Darwin after the initial 19 February attack, dispersing most of their forces to Brisbane, Fremantle, and other, smaller, seaports. Conversely, Allied air commanders launched a build-up in the Darwin area, building more airfields and deploying many squadrons. awm.gov.au/articles/blog/194… Darwin Bombed 1942 (AWM)

On November 19, 1941, HMAS Sydney intercepted a German raider disguised as a merchant ship off Western Australia — and never came home. Both ships sank each other. The Germans survived. All 645 Australian sailors were lost, leaving no one to explain what truly happened. The wreck wasn't found until 2008, sixty-seven years later. Some silences the ocean never breaks.

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14 June 1939 The Government acquired 357 acres of land at Brown’s Hole near Nowra, NSW. Operating as a Royal Naval Air Station during WWII, the site later commissioned as HMAS Albatross.

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