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Aussie -> (10/21/2003 7:39:05 AM)
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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]While it is true that a Japanese Landing on ANY of the Hawaiian Islands or
anyware in Australia would have stirred up some people, unless it was at a
place they actually knew and reccognized as a threat it wasn't going to be
anything more than a nuisance. Even Darwin is more or less the "left end
of nowhere" to most Australians...
Correction - Darwin [I]was[/I] the 'left end of nowhere' (back in 1942). :) Australians would not have considered a Japanese invasion of their soil as a mere nuisance just because it wasn't within 50km of Sydney. After the 19 Feb 1942 carrier strike on Darwin, we took the defence of the northern regions quite seriously.
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