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Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 - The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
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Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 - The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
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When the Pacific war began it was a case of "when not if" Darwin
would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the
extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A
massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before,
hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in the South
Pacific. Since then, generations of Australians have been drawn to
the stories and folklore of the Darwin action. But facts have
blurred and mythology has thrived. What of the warning that never
happened? What of the ghost ship actually sunk in the Atlantic a
year earlier? Did a fighter pilot contrive a false combat record?
Did the authorities cover up the raid? Why do Australians know so
little about it? This is the book that tests these many Darwin
myths and reveals new information: another ship sunk; the actual
intent and nature of the attack; the precise extent of the Japanese
losses. The Darwin raid is usually portrayed as a wholesale
disaster for the Allies, and a day full of military ineptitude.
Carrier Attack shows the defenders were alert and fought with
purpose. Arguably it was the Japanese that wasted much of their
attacking strength, and in this way the Darwin defenders avoided a
much larger catastrophe. Carrier Attack provides a timely and fresh
analysis of the raid. Most importantly, it draws on specially
translated Japanese sources.
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