By 8.45am on February 19, 1942, almost 50 Japanese fighters and bombers had been launched from the deck of the Soryu aircraft carrier. An hour later the planes, led by the whining Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” fighters, had begun the bombing of Darwin — a raid that killed hundreds, sank eight vessels and was the largest ever mounted by a foreign power against Australia.
1942年2月19日,早上8時45分,近50架日本戰(zhàn)斗機和轟炸機已從“蒼龍?zhí)枴?Soryu)航空母艦的甲板升空。一小時后,在轟鳴的三菱(Mitsubishi) A6M“零式”戰(zhàn)斗機的帶領(lǐng)下,這些飛機開始轟炸達(dá)爾文(Darwin)——這是史上外國對澳大利亞發(fā)起的最大規(guī)??找u,致使數(shù)百人喪生,8艘艦船沉沒。
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