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Be it a trip to the Top End to view relics of Darwin’s bombing, a sombre viewing of the moving collections held by the Australian War Memorial or a whirl around the Vietnam Veterans Museum on Phillip Island, there’s plenty of military tourism to be had at home.
A Darwin pilgrimage
Darwin Harbour as it is today. In February 1942, the city was subjected to the greatest foreign attack on Australian soil.
It is a fact little remembered around the country that the air raid on Darwin just before 10am on February 19, 1942, by 188 Japanese bombers was the first and the largest foreign attack on Australian soil.