Eighty years ago

Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces. There were two raids, resulting in some 250 service people and civilians being killed and a number of vessels in the harbour being destroyed. It was the largest hostile attack ever made on the Australian mainland.
Little information was released about the raid and the subsequent attacks that continued in 1943. The bombing of Darwin is to this day less well remembered than the Japanese submarines in Sydney harbour.
We photographed this memorial in Darwin in 2011.