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Attacks on Australia during World War II

Attacks on continental Australia during World War II were relatively rare due to Australia's geographic position. However, axis surface raiders and submarines periodically attacked shipping in the Australian coastal waters from late 1940 to early 1945. Japanese aircraft bombed towns and airfields in Northern Australia on 97 occasions during 1942 and 1943. Papua New Guinea was a part of Australia's overseas territories until 1975, and so the large Japanese invasion in 1942 was a significant invasion of territory under Australian control.

AWM, (1990). Bombing of Darwin. Australian War Memorial.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84294

Clayton, Mark (April 1986). . Journal of the Australian War Memorial (8). Canberra: Australian War Memorial: 33–45. ISSN 0729-6274.

"The north Australian air war, 1942–1944"

Frei, Henry P. (1991). Japan's Southward Advance and Australia. From the Sixteenth Century to World War II. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.  0-522-84392-1.

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- Australian War Memorial

Air raids on Australian mainland: Second World War