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View of Darwin Harbour from land, early in the bombing, 19th February
1942. MV Barossa on fire at the wharf and HMAS Platypus,
mother ship of the Navy luggers, on the right. (Copyright John Boyd Selman
Collection, Northern Territory Library.)
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The moment of SS Neptuna's explosion, seen from sea; HMAS
Deloraine left, HMAS Katoomba in the floating dock
middle, a lifeboat mid-foreground, SS Zealandia burning and
sinking on the right. (Copyright White Collection, Northern Territory
Library.)
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The twisted girders of the bombed jetty in front of the flying boat
terminal. (Copyright R. Black Collection, Northern Territory Library.)
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Coastal steamer Koolinda before the war resting on the mud
beside Broome jetty, showing the enormous rise and fall of north-west
tides. (Copyright C.A.Beurle Collection, Northern Territory Library.)
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The bombing of Broome, 3 March 1942, from a Japanese observation plane. At
left is smoke from the bombed airport; the pale smudge below is the
Japanese cemetery. To the right of the cemetery is Broome township and
the long jetty. In the middle is winding Dampier Creek, and to the far
right are smoke plumes from burning flying-boats, casting a giant shadow
over Roebuck Bay. (Copyright Jeremy Green.)
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Children and adults at Tatura internment camp, Victoria, 1943
(detail). (Copyright Kilgariff Collection, Northern Territory Library.)
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Captain Gregory. (Copyright Pam Gregory Nielsen.) "In Broome the empty
foreshore was emptier still for the loss of that vital, clever man who
loved building luggers."
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