JAPANESE RAID ON DARWIN. SPITFIRES MANNED BY THE RAAF AND R.A.F. WENT INTO ACTION FOR THE SECOND ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin
Accession Number 014566
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Turner, Harry
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin
Date made 2 April 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

JAPANESE RAID ON DARWIN. SPITFIRES MANNED BY THE RAAF AND R.A.F. WENT INTO ACTION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AUSTRALIAN WHEN 49 JAP BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS RAIDED DARWIN. AT LEAST 14 WERE SHOT OUT OF ACTION. HERE IS A SHED, ONE CORNER OF WHICH WAS DAMAGED BY BOMB BLAST. (NEGATIVE BY H. TURNER).