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Title
Anzac Day March Mob Searchligh Bty
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
70th Australian Mobile Searchlight Battery 1942 - 1945
HEADQUARTERED AT BERRIMAH THE UNIT MANNED TWELVE
SECTIONS IN THE DARWIN AREA USING ENGLISH RADAR -
CONTROLLED 800-MILLION CANDLEPOWER SEARCHLIGHTS.
THE BATTERY WAS CREDITED WITH FOUR HALF-KILLS OF
DOWNED ENEMY AIRCRAFT
67 Anti aircraft Searchlight Company (67 AASL Company) - The Battery was raised in Victoria but was reinforced with some men from NSW. It served in Port Moresby prior to its arrival in the Northern Territory in August 1944. They replaced 69 Battery at Batchelor.
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin,[5] on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II. The town was only lightly defended and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon the Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties.
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