Eighty-four years after Darwin was bombed in the single largest foreign attack ever mounted on Australian soil, hundreds of people have gathered to remember.
The numbers associated with the 1942 Japanese attack on Darwin – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern Australia was involved in World War II.
The Top End has marked the anniversary of the 1942 bombing of Darwin amid a push to attract niche tourists to World War II sites and their stories.