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Title: Re: Never Forget
Post by: Stoker on December 08, 2024, 12:37:57 pm

It was, a World War, without any doubt!!!

Title: Re: Never Forget
Post by: St Paul Steam on December 08, 2024, 04:13:11 am

Quote from: Jim on December 07, 2024, 11:44:03 pm

Absolutely and then the same Japanese fleet attacked Darwin here in the North of Australia.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/bombing-darwin-remembered#:~:text=It%20was%20one%20of%20the,were%20not%20used%20at%20Darwin.

I had no idea about the attack you folks also suffered around this time, read the whole article. terrible thing war.

Title: Re: Never Forget
Post by: Jim on December 07, 2024, 11:44:03 pm

Absolutely and then the same Japanese fleet attacked Darwin here in the North of Australia.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/bombing-darwin-remembered#:~:text=It%20was%20one%20of%20the,were%20not%20used%20at%20Darwin.

Title: Re: Never Forget
Post by: Woe is me on December 07, 2024, 02:07:20 pm

I'll never forget, my Mom turned 16 on that day. Today she would have been 99.
Then she had to watch her six brothers go off to war. They all made it back.
Lucky.

Title: Never Forget
Post by: Stoker on December 07, 2024, 11:01:30 am

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