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I have built this design prompted by the fact that the Neil Lowe has made such a wonderful map of the Darwin area, just calling out to be used. It can be found here:

Download > Darwin-1942.zip (The link is inoperative)

The date is March 1942. You are a fighter pilot in the Japanese Naval air Arm, flying the famous A6M2. You are to participate in the sustained air-offensive against Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia.



Between February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands and coastal shipping were attacked at least 97 times by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. These attacks came in various forms, from large scale raids by heavy bombers, to torpedo attacks on ships, to strafing runs by fighter planes.



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