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Japanese air raid alert6/27/2023 Diamonds worth £150,000–300,000 were lost or stolen following the crash. It crash-landed 50 mi (80 km) north of Broome. PK-AFV ( Pelikaan)-a Douglas DC-3 airliner owned by KLM-was shot down by Zeros returning from the attack on Broome. He was the first Indian casualty on Australian soil. A Sikh pilot of the Royal Indian Air Force Flying Officer Manmohan Singh, in one of the RAF Catalina flying boats died. At least 88 people were killed and 24 Allied aircraft were destroyed. Attack on Broome: a strafing raid by nine A6M2 Zeros. 21 Rulhieres Bay, WA (later known as Koolama Bay) Koolama attacked again, no damage or injuries. Attacked again at 13:30 and severely damaged, with injuries to three passengers. MV Koolama damaged by a Kawanishi H6K5 flying boat. ![]() List of attacks by date 1942 February 19 Bombing of Darwin (10:00) Attack by 188 carrier-based aircraft at Darwin, Northern Territory (NT) (11:55) Attack by 54 land-based high-level bombers at Darwin, NT Bathurst Island, NT 20 (11:30) Off Cape Londonderry, Western Australia (WA). The fourth raid on north Queensland occurred on the night of 31 July when a single flying boat dropped a bomb which exploded near a house outside of Mossman, injuring a child. This aircraft was intercepted by four Airacobras and was damaged. The third raid on Townsville occurred in the early hours of 29 July when a single flying boat again attacked the city, dropping seven bombs into the sea and an eighth which fell on an agricultural research station at Oonoonba, damaging a coconut plantation. Six P-39 Airacobras unsuccessfully attempted to intercept the Japanese aircraft. Townsville was attacked for the second time in the early hours of 28 July when a single flying boat dropped eight bombs which landed in bushland outside the city. ![]() On the night of 25/26 July, the city was attacked by two flying boats but did not suffer any damage as the six bombs dropped by these aircraft fell into the sea. Townsville, which was an important military base, was raided by Japanese Kawanishi H8K1 "Emily" flying boats operating from Rabaul on three nights in late July 1942. Japanese naval flying boats conducted four small air raids on the north Queensland city of Townsville and the town of Mossman in late July 1942. Two Australian soldiers searching for fragments of a bomb dropped during the third raid on Townsville. These raids sought to prevent the Allies from using bases in northern Australia to contest the conquest of the Netherlands East Indies. The Japanese conducted a series of air raids on Australia during February and March 1942. Some civilians were also killed.Īlthough the main defence was provided by RAAF and Allied fighters, a number of Australian Army anti-aircraft batteries in northern Australia also defended against Japanese air raids. Japanese aircrews also targeted civil infrastructure, including harbours, civil airfields, railways, and fuel tanks. These attacks were opposed by, and often aimed at, units and personnel from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, British Royal Air Force and Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force. Killing at least 235 people and causing immense damage, the attacks made hundreds of people homeless and resulted in the abandonment of Darwin as a major naval base. In the first and deadliest set of attacks, 242 aircraft hit Darwin on the morning of 19 February 1942. These attacks came in various forms from large-scale raids by medium bombers, to torpedo attacks on ships, and to strafing runs by fighters. ![]() The map includes many of the air fields which were targeted by Japanese aircraft.īetween February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War of World War II, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands, and coastal shipping were attacked at least 111 times by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. ![]() Produced for air defence purposes by the Royal Australian Air Force.
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