⚠️(Educational Content)⚠️ was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin Harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II. The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–1943. The event happened just