When World War 2 Came to Melbourne on 26 February, 1942

The Japanese launched a reconnaissance flight from a submarine over Melbourne and Port Phillip Bay on 26 February, 1942.
Acknowledgements:
OzAtWar website
Jenkins, David, "Battle Surface - Japan's Submarine War against Australia 1942 - 44", Random House Australia, 1992

[@BrassLock]

What a great piece of little-known wartime Aussie history.

[@GlowingTube]

Glad you enjoyed it. Just shows how dicey things got.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Fantastic, thank you for this.

[@Jimmyc6969]

That was so amazingly interesting! Thank you for this

[@GlowingTube]

Glad you enjoyed it… I was surprised to hear of this event. Goes to show how close Australia came.

[@Jimmyc6969]

@@GlowingTube I live in Sydney, right near the barracks built for WW2 and the Japanese. It's always intrigued me immensely

[@jasonritchie8357]

I had heard of this but not to this detail. Thanks for sharing.

[@seagullblu]

Fascinating stuff!

[@zoekoul]

love this!

[@Gator1699]

My fishing arears FMD.

[@ArtQuiltSupplies]

Wow

[@ritikmittal528]

Need to write an infrographic on this for English

[@GlowingTube]

I hope this video helps a bit

[@divarachelenvy]

he was bloody lucky...

[@GlowingTube]

Very!

[@sealteamsix1784]

he was also the ONLY axis pilot to bomb the continental united states (oregon) in WW2.
he survived WW2 and actually returned to the town in oregon where he bombed (and they made him an honorary citizen or something).
this guy was the master of walking in and acting like you belong there.