Darwin 1942 The Japanese attack on Australia Bob Alford 9781472816870,1472816870

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472816870
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472816870
• Author:  Bob Alford

Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of “when” and not “if.”

On February 19, just eleven weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor and two weeks after the fall of Singapore, the same Japanese battle group that had attacked Hawaii was ordered to attack the ill-prepared and under-defended Australian port of Darwin.

Publishing 75 years after this little-known yet devastating attack, this fully illustrated study details what happened on that dramatic day in 1942 with the help of contemporary photographs, maps, and profiles of the commanders and machines involved in the assault.

Table of contents:

1. Origins and Background
2. A threat evolves
3. Japan attacks
4. The rise and fall of Abdacom
5. Chronology
6. Opposing Commanders
7. The Allies
8. The Japanese
9. Opposing Forces
10. The Japanese strike force
11. The Allied defences
12. Darwin’s defences
13. The American Provisional squadrons
14. Orders of battle
15. Opposing Plans
16. Darwin targeted
17. Darwin – a waiting game
18. The Battle
19. To Darwin – the long flight north
20. First to fall
21. The strike force launched
22. First victims
23. Initial combat
24. The strike force approaches
25. The aerodromes
26. A squadron decimated
27. The enigmatic Lieutenant Oestreicher
28. The noon raid
29. Attacks on the Don Isidro and Florence D
30. Aftermath
31. Japanese losses
32. Allied losses
33. An end and a beginning
34. Darwin Today

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