The northern Australian city of Darwin on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of a Japanese air raid that killed hundreds during World War II.The bombing of Darwin on Feb. 19, 1942, the first attack by Japanese forces on the Australian mainland, killed at least 250 people and destroyed 30 aircraft and nine ships."Eighty years ago, Australia and Japan faced off across a seemingly unbreachable divide," said Darwin's mayor Kon Vatskalis on the eve of the anniversary. "But time, good sense, and an improved appreciation of not just our differences but our similarities have healed those old woun…READ FULL ARTICLE
