Australia Under Attack. The Bombing Of Darwin 1942

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: New Holland
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 214 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 2022 marks 80 years since Australia faced an unprecedented foreign attack on home soil. Author Douglas Lockwood was an Australian newspaperman and author. Born in Natimuk, 25 kilometres west of Horsham in Victorias Wimmera district, Lockwood left school at 12 to help run his fathers newspaper, the weekly West Wimmera Mail, at the height of the Great Depression. With his fathers blessing he left home at 16 and worked as a reporter on rural Victorian papers in Camperdown, Tatura, and Mildura before being hired by Sir Keith Murdoch in 1941 as a journalist on The Herald in Melbourne. He stayed with The Heralds parent company, the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), for the rest of his life. At the end of 1941, during World War II, he was sent to Darwin with his new wife, Ruth, and was there for the first Japanese attack on Australia on 19 February 1942. While Douglas was there and was able to share his personal story he also interviewed Americans Japanese and other nations who took part. He was able to meet & interview former airmen who had flown against the Japanese that day and been shot down. He tells the story of the Bombing of Darwin.

ISBN: 9781741102697