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20th February 2012

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

70th Anniversary of Darwin bombing

I travelled up to the Northern Territory to participate in a weekend of commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the WWII attack on Darwin. 19 February 1942 was not of course the start of the war for Australia.  Australian diggers had been fighting alongside their British comrades for two years and five months by then. […]

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