On screen text: End of the Second World War - Northern Territory remembers
On screen text: Sights of significance
On screen text: Then and now
[Audio of the city being bombed]
[Background music]
Image 1: Newspapers of the day on 19 February 1942 front page headline of, “Darwin bombed by Japs. First enemy attack on mainland.
Image 2: Military members fighting the Stokes Hill oil storage tanks bombed by Japanese aircraft 1942
Image 3: Historical image showing a direct bomb hit on one of four naval fuel tanks in 1942. The 2020 image shows the tree growth over the destroyed fuel tank and the remaining three fuel tanks still intact.
Image 4: Historical image shows a then bomb damaged bank on corner of Smith Street and Bennett Street, Darwin 1942.
Image 5: The modern image shows a now a vibrant city with palm trees and hire scooters including the restored bank and Smith Street Mall in 2020.
Image 6: Historical image showing the large amounts of black smoke coming from the bombed fuel tanks on fire from the wooden structured Stokes Hill Wharf.
Image 7: the 2020 image shows a modern wharf and marina with boats docked.
Image 8: Historical image showing the USS Peary ablaze 1942 shortly before she sank in Darwin Harbour.
Image 9: Historical image of ships ablaze in the harbour during the bombing in 1942.
Image 10: The 2020 image shows a peaceful harbour with two docked together Royal Australian Navy Armidale Class patrol boats.
Image 11: Historical image shows two allied Spitfires taxiing on the Strauss airstrip 1942 to 1945.
Image 12: The 2020 image displays the Strauss airstrip alongside the Stuart Highway with replica cutouts of the P40 Kittyhawk and Spitfire aircrafts.
Image 13: Historical image shot of the sunken Merchant Vessel Neptuna from Stokes Hill Wharf after the first raid by Japanese aircraft in 1942.
Image 14: The 2020 image shows Stokes Hill Wharf as a modern wharf with eatery’s and a moored tugboat alongside the wharf.
Image 15: Historical image of the bombed QANTAS Airways Limited hangar in 1942.
Image 16: The restored QANTAS Airways Hangar in 2020.
Image 17: Historical image of bombed Smith Street in Darwin looking toward Bennett Street. It shows the bombed out bank and Cashmans building.
Image 18: The 2020 image shows the restored Cashmans building with a newsagency and a restored Westpac bank building.
Image 19: Historical image showing the destroyed Darwin Post Office in 1942.
Image 20: The modern image of Parliament House, Darwin, Northern Territory, 2020 where the Post Office once stood.
Image 21: Historical Image is the destroyed Police Barracks on Mitchell Street Darwin.
Image 22: The modern image showing the Northern Territory Supreme Court, 2020 where the Police Barracks was previously located.
Image 23: Historical image of a troop parade on Bennett Street Darwin in 1942.
Image 24: The modern image shows Bennett and Smith Street Mall 2020 with vehicles and children on hire scooters.
Image 25: Historical image of the completely destroyed Hotel Darwin bombed in 1942.
Image 26: The modern image is a rebuilt Hotel Darwin 2020.
Image 27: Historical image of troops filling sand bags on Mindil Beach 1942.
Image 28: Image shows children running with their dogs on Mindil Beach 2020.
Image 29: Historical image of a gun emplacement East Point, Darwin before the concrete blast walls were built around it.
Image 30: The modern image is the gun emplacement complete with blast walls at East Point Reserve 2020
Image 31: The Sun newspaper headline on 15 August 1945 reads, Peace!
Image 32: Remembrance wall full of poppy’s from the Australian War Memorial.
On screen text: Acknowledgments, Northern Territory Government, Gaynor Lovett and Darwin Military Museum.
On screen text: Post production Kylie Hyde
On screen text: Photography Clive Hyde
On screen text: Photographs from the Libraries and Archives NT, Australian War Memorial
On screen text: End of the Second World War - Northern Territory Remembers
