Broome’s One Day War – The Japanese Raid on Broome 3rd March 1942

Description

Title: Broome’s One Day War – The Japanese Raid on Broome 3rd March 1942

Author: Prime, Mervyn

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 5th Edition

Publication Date: 2003

ISBN: N/A

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 45 pages

Comments: We often hear of the Japanese attack on Darwin but rarely does Broome get a mention. This is the story of the day Japanese Zero fighter planes attacked the WA town.

The town of Broome, Western Australia was attacked by Japanese fighter planes on 3 March 1942, during World War II. At least 88 people were killed.

Although Broome was a small pearling port at the time, it was also a refuelling point for aircraft, on route between the Netherlands East Indies and major Australian cities. As a result, Broome was on a line of flight for Dutch and other refugees, following the Japanese invasion of Java, and had become a significant Allied military base. During a two-week period in February–March 1942, more than a thousand refugees from the Dutch East Indies — many of them in flying boats, which often served as airliners at the time – passed through Broome.