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  1. I hope you'll see this ~ Video idea to tie in with the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin. ~ I tried to leave a suggestion using the discord link but it said it was invalid or expired? (I've Never used discord before!) But with the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin tomorrow in Australia, I wanted to request maybe doing a video on the topic. There's a tonne of stuff out there on the topic. I have suggested this before a few months ago but it probably got lost in the comments. Here's a news item from today with an interview with a 101 year old Veteran an survivor Brian Winspear. And some history on the events. https://youtu.be/UNTQ550Os04 Good little video with a broad history on it. https://youtu.be/Gl9YT00RZQU A few More links https://youtu.be/qTYM6dNrJt8 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/brian-survived-the-bombing-of-darwin-he-doesn-t-want-his-account-to-be-forgotten/46dcdf77-267e-4da3-b803-2a8af9650157 https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/dark-day-ww2-darwin-bombing-anniversary-tomorrow/video/448161fb1aae64628373c6546f259f09 https://audioboom.com/posts/8033746-101-year-old-veteran-brian-winspear-who-experienced-the-darwin-bombing-gives-katie-a-gripping-a 19th February 1942, The Japanese launched an air raid on Darwin. Not to take over Australia but to send a warning and to destroy our northern defences so they could invade Timor. This was basically our equivalent of Pearl Harbour, the same Japanese commander who was behind Pearl Harbour was behind the Darwin air raid too. Over 600 bombs were dropped. A reported 240 died and several hundred of others injured. Though it's estimated the real figures could be over 1000. If I recall, Brian Winspear said a further 1700 casualties in subsequent attacks over the next 2 years. But not many people outside of Australia know about the bombing of Darwin. Or the attacks on Australia during that two year period. It wasn't even really taught in school until more recent times. They say it was kinda of covered up a bit in the media back then by the government. Supposedly to keep morale up but Brian says more so because they were embarrassed they were caught so utterly unprepared. My Nans father(my great grandfather) was there and she said he was told at that time, not to talk about it or how big it was or how many really died. The air raids continued for another 18 months after the initial one I believe. Anyways just an idea 🙂 And I loved this video too btw 👍 She's hilarious and spot on.
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