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Mike Scholl -> LET'S ASK ONE. (10/21/2003 8:23:10 AM)
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[QUOTE=Aussie][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.[/QUOTE]
As you are an Aussie, let's ask the question. Had you been around in 1942,
would you have gone into a panic of defeatism and screamed for your Gov't
to get out of the war if the Japanese had landed somewhere on the North
Coast? Even if it were Darwin?
Or would the effect be just the opposite?
Maybe I was a bit harsh calling Darwin the "left end of nowhere"---I'm not an
Aussie. As an American I was describing the feeling I'd have had if someone
told me the Japs had landed at Juneu Alaska. Not panic, but outrage.
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