Australias Pearl Harbour - Darwin 1942, by Douglas Lockwood
Darwin was bombed in broad daylight by members of the Japanese Carrier Task Force, which had been engaged at Pearl Harbour two months earlier. Not a single operational RAAF fighter aircraft was available to meet this attack, imminent and inevitable though it was. Author Douglas Lockwood was an Australian newspaperman and author. At the end of 1941, he was sent to Darwin with his wife, and was there for the first Japanese attack on Australia on 19 February 1942. While Douglas was there and was a