filmov
tv
🇦🇺Bombing of Darwin Day Reenactment | 80 YEAR ANNIVERSARY | 4K [2022]
Показать описание
Marking 80 years since the largest single attack mounted by a foreign power on Australian soil, the bombing of Darwin Ceremony, 2022 features a reenactment of that day.
Joining the reenactment, a Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A/B Hornet from No. 75 squadron based at RAAF Base Tindal conducted a fly-past over Darwin.
On February 19, 1942, 242 Japanese fighters and bombers attacked Darwin in two separate raids. Attacking the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields, they attempted to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Bombs rained down on the town, on nearby airfields and ships in the port, killing more than 230 allied service personnel and civilians, and wounding more than 300 people.
More bombs were dropped on Darwin in this attack than on Pearl Harbour in Japan’s surprise military strike against the US just six weeks earlier.
0:00 Bombing of Darwin Day Reenactment
1:10 The raid starts
4:15 The Raid ends
THE RAID
The four Japanese aircraft carriers launched 188 aircraft on the morning of 19 February. The main objective of their crews was attacking ships and port facilities in Darwin Harbour. This wave was led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who had also commanded the first wave of attackers during the raid on Pearl Harbor.
On their way to Darwin, Zeros shot down a US Navy PBY Catalina and strafed a USAAF C-47 Skytrain on the ground, near Melville Island. At 9.35 am Father McGrath of the Sacred Heart mission on Bathurst Island, who was also an Australian coastwatcher, sent a message using a pedal radio to the Amalgamated Wireless Postal Radio Station at Darwin that a large number of aircraft were flying overhead and proceeding southward. The message was then relayed to the Royal Australian Air Force Operations at 9.37 am. No general alarm was given until about 10 am as the RAAF officers there wrongly judged that the aircraft which had been sighted were ten USAAF P-40s, which were returning to Darwin at the time after reports of bad weather forced them to abort a flight to Java via Kupang, West Timor. As a result, the air raid sirens at Darwin were not sounded before the raid.
Flying escort in a Zero fighter, Petty Officer Yoshikazu Nagahama was separated from his squadron while he was attacking the PBY flying boat and arrived over the city alone ahead of the strike force, which was making a turn to attack from the south. He engaged five US Army Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighters and single-handedly shot down four of them.
The Japanese raiders began to arrive over Darwin at 9:58 am. HMAS Gunbar was the first ship to be attacked, being strafed by several Zero fighters. At about this time, the town's air raid sirens were belatedly sounded. The Japanese bombers then conducted dive bombing and level bombing attacks on the ships in Darwin Harbour. These attacks lasted for 30 minutes, and resulted in the sinking of three warships and six merchant vessels, and damage to another ten ships. The ships sunk were the USS Peary, HMAS Mavie, USAT Meigs, MV Neptuna (which exploded while docked at Darwin's main wharf), Zealandia, SS Mauna Loa, MV British Motorist. The oil tanker Karalee and the coal storage hulk Kelat sank later. At least 21 labourers working on the wharf were killed when it was bombed.
More than 100 raids were made on Australia by the Japanese during 1942–43.
Joining the reenactment, a Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A/B Hornet from No. 75 squadron based at RAAF Base Tindal conducted a fly-past over Darwin.
On February 19, 1942, 242 Japanese fighters and bombers attacked Darwin in two separate raids. Attacking the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields, they attempted to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Bombs rained down on the town, on nearby airfields and ships in the port, killing more than 230 allied service personnel and civilians, and wounding more than 300 people.
More bombs were dropped on Darwin in this attack than on Pearl Harbour in Japan’s surprise military strike against the US just six weeks earlier.
0:00 Bombing of Darwin Day Reenactment
1:10 The raid starts
4:15 The Raid ends
THE RAID
The four Japanese aircraft carriers launched 188 aircraft on the morning of 19 February. The main objective of their crews was attacking ships and port facilities in Darwin Harbour. This wave was led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who had also commanded the first wave of attackers during the raid on Pearl Harbor.
On their way to Darwin, Zeros shot down a US Navy PBY Catalina and strafed a USAAF C-47 Skytrain on the ground, near Melville Island. At 9.35 am Father McGrath of the Sacred Heart mission on Bathurst Island, who was also an Australian coastwatcher, sent a message using a pedal radio to the Amalgamated Wireless Postal Radio Station at Darwin that a large number of aircraft were flying overhead and proceeding southward. The message was then relayed to the Royal Australian Air Force Operations at 9.37 am. No general alarm was given until about 10 am as the RAAF officers there wrongly judged that the aircraft which had been sighted were ten USAAF P-40s, which were returning to Darwin at the time after reports of bad weather forced them to abort a flight to Java via Kupang, West Timor. As a result, the air raid sirens at Darwin were not sounded before the raid.
Flying escort in a Zero fighter, Petty Officer Yoshikazu Nagahama was separated from his squadron while he was attacking the PBY flying boat and arrived over the city alone ahead of the strike force, which was making a turn to attack from the south. He engaged five US Army Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighters and single-handedly shot down four of them.
The Japanese raiders began to arrive over Darwin at 9:58 am. HMAS Gunbar was the first ship to be attacked, being strafed by several Zero fighters. At about this time, the town's air raid sirens were belatedly sounded. The Japanese bombers then conducted dive bombing and level bombing attacks on the ships in Darwin Harbour. These attacks lasted for 30 minutes, and resulted in the sinking of three warships and six merchant vessels, and damage to another ten ships. The ships sunk were the USS Peary, HMAS Mavie, USAT Meigs, MV Neptuna (which exploded while docked at Darwin's main wharf), Zealandia, SS Mauna Loa, MV British Motorist. The oil tanker Karalee and the coal storage hulk Kelat sank later. At least 21 labourers working on the wharf were killed when it was bombed.
More than 100 raids were made on Australia by the Japanese during 1942–43.
0:01:44
BOMBING OF DARWIN DAY 2019
0:07:10
🇦🇺Bombing of Darwin Day Reenactment | 80 YEAR ANNIVERSARY | 4K [2022]
0:03:11
81st Bombing of Darwin Commemoration NEWS
1:32:17
Bombing of Darwin Day Commemoration | ABC Australia
0:01:17
Bombing of Darwin 2020 montage
1:30:07
Bombing of Darwin 2024
0:01:32
79th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin and USS Peary
0:00:46
Bombing of Darwin Commemorative Service 2023
0:08:01
2018 Bombing of Darwin Commemoration
0:42:46
Bombing of Darwin Day - 80th Anniversary
0:34:26
80th Bombing Of Darwin Day Commemorative Service | 19 February 2022
0:11:47
Bombing of Darwin Experience | Darwin Military Museum | 5K [2022]
0:01:57
🇦🇺 'A FLORAL 🌹TRIBUTE' | Bombing of Darwin | 80 Years On | 4K [2022]
0:01:24
Bombing of Darwin Tour by Land and Sea
0:09:21
Bombing of Darwin 79 Year Anniversary | The Last Post [2021] 4K
0:14:53
Bombing of Darwin
0:05:41
A Forgotten Campaign | USAAF 49th Fighter Group over Darwin
0:07:08
Bombing Of Darwin Observance 80 years
0:02:32
Battle of Darwin Experience - Excerpts
0:10:03
BOMBING OF DARWIN MOVIE - A Nice Day for Flying Movie Presentation FULL
0:15:36
75th Commemoration of Darwin Bombing
0:02:51
Northern Territory marks 80th anniversary of bombing of Darwin during WWII
0:00:16
106 Year Old Galapagos Tortoise! 🐢 😱
0:01:41
Indigenous Veterans' Ceremony 2022 | RSL Queensland
Комментарии