Weatherday: Bombing of Darwin

Tree study, Altamont, Carlow (2022).

Beginning with rain, sleet and hail, with some really heavy showers through breakfast time, there will be a clearance to sunny spells through the afternoon. More rain this evening.

Highest temperature 9deg in moderate south-east winds shifting westerly and strengthening over lunchtime.

On this day in 1942, about 150 Japanese planes attacked the city of Darwin, in the largest single attack ever mounted against Australia by a foreign power. Australian casualties were 236 dead and up to 400 wounded, against two killed on the Japanese side.

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