75th Anniversary (4: 1942)

 

In 1942 the war focus moves from the European & Middle East campaigns to the Pacific and the war on our doorstep. 

 

 

 Australians feel threatened as midget submarines are encountered at Sydney, the Japanese land on our next-door-neighbours, and bomb the Australian mainland at Darwin & Broome.Politicians consider the very real danger of an invasion and how the country would deal with it.

 

 

Locally the newspaper articles include lists of missing, wounded, killed & captured local service men & women.

 

 

and how people are coping on the home front - an advert from Langlands the department store in Horsham with details of rationing & restricted goods.