Comments by "Teagirl009" (@Teagirl009) on "American Reacts to Beautiful Darwin, Australia (Northern Territory)" video.

The northern parts of Australia (Inc tropical north Queensland) don't have a full seasons like the rest of country. It's basically dry and wet seasons and warm year round. The bombing of Darwin by the Japanese during WW2 was our Pearl Harbor. February this year was the 80th anniversary.(19th February 1942.) An important part of Australian history that too often gets over looked...many Australians don't know too much about it. it was heavily censored by the government at the time, partly to stop panic and largely because they were embarrassed at being caught so unprepared. There was about 90 American military who perished in the air raids too when one of their ships was sunk in Darwin Harbour. President Obama I think visited the memorial there during his time on office. Around 2000 killed over the 20 months of air raids accross mostly over Darwin but also, Townsville, Exmouth and even Sydney Harbour. Had there not been precautionary evacuation of most civilians in Darwin prior, the casualties would've been much higher during the initial attack. My great grandfather was stationed in Darwin during the time, til the end of ww2. He always said they censored and played down the scale of the attacks and deaths. I added some related viewing suggestions on discord.
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@IWrocker No problem 🙂. I've been learning more about it myself in recent years.
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