During the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force conducted a campaign of aerial bombings, or air raids, against the Australian mainland, as well as off
An Australian gun camera photograph of two Japanese Mitsubishi G4M2 "Betty" medium bombers of 753rd Air Group during a raid on Darwin in June 1943.
The explosion of the MV Neptuna, hit during the first Japanese air raid on Darwin. In the foreground is HMAS Deloraine, which escaped damage.
Two Australian soldiers searching for fragments of a bomb dropped during the third raid on Townsville.
Two Australian Supermarine Spitfire fighters taking off from Darwin to intercept Japanese raiders in March 1943
The Mitsubishi G4M was a twin-engine, land-based medium bomber manufactured by the Mitsubishi Aircraft Company, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and operated by the Air Service of the Imperial J
Japanese air raids on Australia
…An Australian gun camera photograph of two Japanese Mitsubishi G4M2 "Betty" medium bombers of 753rd Air Group during a raid on Darwin in June 1943. "Fighter Guide Map No. 1B, Darwin Area", March 1944. Produced for air…
A Mitsubishi G4M2a Model 24 of the 763rd Kōkūtai
A Mitsubishi G4M1; with a non-standard roundel - a white square instead of the white circle surrounding the hinomaru.
IJN aviators pressed home a torpedo attack against American ships off Guadalcanal on 8 August 1942, suffering heavy losses. The plane on the left at extreme low-level (approximately five meters) was flown by Jun Takahashi.