Air Raids on Australia

"Between February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands and coastal shipping were attacked at least 97 times by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. These attacks came in various forms, from large scale raids by heavy bombers, to torpedo attacks on ships, to strafing runs by fighter planes.

In the first—and deadliest—attacks, 242 planes hit Darwin on the morning of 19 February 1942, killing at least 243 people, causing immense damage, making hundreds of people homeless and causing the abandonment of Darwin as a major naval base."

I took this info from here. I have been researching all the raids that occurred in NT during 1942, and the amount is much larger than I expected. Luckily the raids never reached Melbourne.

Japanese Mitsubishi GM4 "Betty" Bomber during a raid on Darwin, June 1943.

Joe.