Thread: Attack on Newcastle

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Weren't they angry in Darwin? They sure copped a hiding....

The first shot fired in anger by the allied forces was the gun at Port Phillip Bay which fired on a German merchant ship to stop it leaving port, within hours or war being declared, exact same thing happened in the WW1. A fishing trawler was attacked off Moruya Heads (South Coast NSW) and badly damaged by a Jap sub and 3 men killed, Regards Frank.

Originally Posted by mikehzz

Weren't they angry in Darwin? They sure copped a hiding....

Yeah mate, they dropped more bombs on Darwin than they did at Pearl Harbour . I think there was something like 160 raids on Darwin. They also raided down the north coast of Queensland!!!

Broome?

Thanks for the reminder though...

Originally Posted by digger

Broome?

Thanks for the reminder though...

Yup, down the WA coast too.

Originally Posted by Tank

The first shot fired in anger by the allied forces was the gun at Port Phillip Bay which fired on a German merchant ship to

Originally Posted by Tank

stop it leaving port, within hours or war being declared, exact same thing happened in the WW1. A fishing trawler was attacked off Moruya Heads (South Coast NSW) and badly damaged by a Jap sub and 3 men killed, Regards Frank.

You are quite correct, I will rephrase to say the guns at Fort Scratchley were the only guns on Mainland Australia to engage an enemy vessel in a naval engagement!!

this may be of interest to some...

Australia under attack | Australian War Memorial

Australia Attacked

On 31 May 1942, the war came to the east coast when three Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney Harbour.

In June 1942 a submarine lightly shelled the eastern suburbs in Sydney and then Newcastle.

Japanese submarines also attacked coastal shipping, causing the loss of some 60 lives and 29,000 tons of shipping during the two months after the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour.


List of air attacks on mainland Australia by date

1942

February
19
(10:00) Darwin, Northern Territory (NT) (11:55) Darwin, NT Bathurst Island, NT

20
(11:30) Off Cape Londonderry, Western Australia (WA). MV Koolama damaged by a Kawanishi H6K5 flying boat. Attacked again at 13:30 and severely damaged, with injuries to three passengers.

21
Rulhieres Bay, WA (later known as Koolama Bay) Koolama attacked again, no damage or injuries.

March
3
(09:20) Broome, WA. Attack on Broome: a strafing raid by nine A6M3 Zeros. At least 88 people were killed and 24 Allied aircraft were destroyed.

(~10:30) Carnot Bay, WA. PK-AFV (Pelikaan)—a Douglas DC-3 airliner owned by KLM—was shot down by Zeros returning from the attack on Broome. It crash-landed 50 mi (80 km) north of Broome. Four passengers were killed. Diamonds worth £150,000–300,000 were lost or stolen following the crash.

Wyndham, WA. Strafing attack by Zeroes. No casualties. Koolama, which is in port by this time (see above), sinks as an indirect result of the attack.

Wyndham Airfield, WA[4] 4 Wreckage and passengers from PK-AFV attacked again by a Kawanishi H6K5 flying boat, no damage or casualties.

(14:00) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT 14 Horn Island, Queensland (Qld)[5]

16
(13:30) Darwin RAAF Airfield and Bagot, NT 17 Darwin, NT 18 Horn Island, Qld

19
(11:40) Darwin (Myilly Point and Larrakeyah), NT 20 Broome Airfield, WA. Attack by Mitsubishi G4M2 "Betty" medium bombers. One civilian killed. Minor damage to airfield. Derby, WA[6]

22
(00:51) Darwin, NT
22
Katherine, NT[7] (Furthest air raid into the Australian interior - over 200 km from the coast).
23
Darwin, NT Wyndham, WA (two raids)[4]
28
(12:30) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
30
(05:40?) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
30
Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
31
(13:20) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
(22:19) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT

April
2
(15:30) Darwin (Harvey St, McMinn St, Shell Oil Tanks), NT Sattler Airfield, NT
4
(13:48) Darwin Civil Airfield and Parap Hotel, NT
5
(12:29) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
25
(14:00) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
27
(12:07) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
30
Horn Island, QLD

June
13
(11:52) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
14
(13:14) Darwin (town area), NT
15
(12:20) Darwin (Larrakeyah to Stokes Hill), NT
16
(12:01) Darwin (town area), NT
26
(20:50) Darwin, NT

July
7
Horn Island, Qld
25
(20:50) Darwin (town area), NT
26
Townsville, Qld (
21:39–22:54) Darwin (Vesteys Meatworks), NT
27
(22:27) Knuckey's Lagoon, Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
28
(00:45) Darwin RAAF airfield, NT Townsville, Qld
29
(00:59) Darwin (town area) and Knuckey's Lagoon, NT. Townsville, Qld
30
(03:58) Darwin (town area) and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
Horn Island, Qld Port Hedland, WA.[8]
31
Mossman, Qld[8]
(13:33) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT

August

1
Horn Island, Qld
21
Wyndham, WA
23
(12:12) Hughes Airfield, NT
24
(21:24) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
(22:14) Noonamah, NT
25
(00:05) Darwin and Parap, NT
27
(03:45–05:37) Darwin (Botanical Gardens) and Cox Peninsula, NT
28
(03:35) Darwin (Railway Yards and Port Patterson), NT
30
(02:39) Darwin (town area), NT
31
(05:14) Darwin (town area) and Cox Peninsula), NT

September

25
(03:41) Darwin (town area) and Knuckey's Lagoon, NT
25
(05:48) Darwin (town area and Daly Street Bridge), NT
26 (05:22) Livingstone Airfield, NT
27 (04:56) Bynoe Harbour, NT
(05:44) Darwin (town area) (Frances Bay)

October

10
Horn Island, Qld
24
(04:42) Batchelor Airfield
(04:52) Pell Airfield
(04:57) Cox Peninsula
(05:12) Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT

25
(05:30) Darwin (town area) and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
26
(04:54) Darwin (town area) and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
27
(02:20) Darwin (town area) and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT

November

23
(03:00–04:39) Darwin (town area) and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
26
(03:20) Darwin (town area), Strauss Airfield and Hughes Airfield, NT
27
(03:56–04:46) Coomalie Creek, Hughes Airfield and Strauss Airfield, NT

1943


January
20
(22:44–00:15) Searchlight station, AWC Camp, Ironstone, NT
21
(21:54) Darwin (Frances Bay), NT
22
(13:30) HMAS Patricia Cam sunk, near Wessel Islands, NT.

March

2
(14:34) Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
15
(11:20) Darwin (oil tanks), NT

May

2
(10:15) Darwin RAAF Airfield and Darwin Floating Dock, NT
9
Millingimbi, NT
10
Millingimbi, NT. The cutter HMAS Maroubra was sunk.
20
Exmouth Gulf, WA
21
Exmouth Gulf, WA
28
Millingimbi, NT

June
18
Horn Island, Qld
20
(10:43) Winnellie and Darwin RAAF Airfield, NT
28
(11:07) Vesteys, NT
30
(12:30) Fenton Airfield, NT

July
6
(12:02) Fenton Airfield, NT

August
13
(21:45) Fenton Airfield, NT (
23:12) Fenton Airfield and Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
(23:42) Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
14
Long Airfield, NT
17
Port Hedland, WA[8]
21
(00:37) Fenton Airfield and Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
(03:30) Pell Airfield, NT

September
15
(00:25) Fenton Airfield and Long Airfield, NT
15
Onslow, WA. (The southernmost air raid in Australia.)
16
Exmouth Gulf, WA
18
(03:50) Fenton Airfield and Long Airfield, NT
27
Drysdale River Mission (Kalumburu) airfield, WA.
One fatality, Father Thomas Gil, the superior of the mission.

November
10
Coomalie Creek Airfield, NT
12
(03:53–05:30) Parap, Adelaide River and Batchelor Airfield,