Wendy James never saw the Bombing of Darwin, but for her and others, the pain lingers
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Wendy James was one of more than 2,000 women and children evacuated from Darwin before the bombs dropped.
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Eighty-six-year-old Wendy James will never forget seeing the newspaper headline "Darwin bombed", even though she was just six at the time.
Weeks earlier, she had waved goodbye to her father Stan Secrett on Stokes Hill Wharf, one of 2,000 women and children who were evacuated from the then-remote Top End military outpost after the outbreak of World War II.