Bombing of Darwin
Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:46
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Rod W
There's an ad here for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of
Darwin. I lived in
Darwin from 1971 to 1987. I was a
young chippie and worked for the Department of Works. One job I worked on was the renovation of the old war time Power House in Armidale street Stuart Park. We had to clear out one of the storage sheds. In the shed was all the old daily log running books of the power house (the page size of these log books was about A3 size, so quite large when open), with records from before, during and after the 2nd world war. In looking through these log books and in particular the war years is showed details of air raids on
Darwin, which happened more than once. I contacted the
Darwin museum only to find they were not interested. We dumped all the log books, something which I've regretted doing ever since. Recorded history gone.
Reply By: Robin Miller - Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:50
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:50
Sadly we will be attending a funeral service today for my father in law.
He always told the story of how they looked up from digging the trenches at all these planes in the distance flying to
darwin.
They all waved - then the officer in command said , stop that you idiots , we don't have that many planes in our whole air-force.
The digging of trenches proceeded at a much faster rate shortly after that.
They had 1 rifle per every 3 men and were issued 3 rounds - its all they had.
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Follow Up By: Member - MUZBRY(Vic) - Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 at 20:00
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 at 20:00
Gday Robin and Anne
You have my deepest sympathies . Keep your chin up. If you need to talk to someone , just call .
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