Australian Under Attack

by Douglas Lockwood

Book Overview

The first ever attack on Australia by a foreign power occurred at Darwin on 19th February 1942. The town was bombed in broad daylight by members of the Japanese Carrier Task Force which had been engaged at Pearl Harbor two months earlier. Not a single operational R.A.A.F. fighter aircraft was available to meet this attack, imminent and inevitable though it was... At the time of the raid, Douglas Lockwood was a correspondent for the Melbourne Herald...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741102693
• ISBN13: 9781741102697
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: New Holland Publishers
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"