The Empire Strikes Broome: 3rd March 1942

On the 3rd of March 1942, Japanese Zero fighters operating from Kopang, Indonesia attacked the Western Australian Pearling port of Broome. It was a target rich environment with the harbour packed with military and civilian aircraft filled with refugees from the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies. One of the victims was a Dutch Dakota carrying a fortune in diamonds bound for the Commonwealth Bank in Australia. Often described as 'Western Australia's Pearl Harbour' it was the most dramatic of several attacks on Broome during the dutation of the war.

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The Empire Strikes Broome: 3rd March 1942 is an episode from Backyard Battlefields.

This episode is 12:13 long.

This episode was published on Jun 18, 2024.

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