It is unknown how many people were killed in the Darwin bombings, but according to the original records, 243 civilians and military personnel were killed. This number was later revised to "about 250", and later again, revised upwards still.
The real toll is believed to have been much higher, as these figures did not include the many Indigenous Australians who lived in the area. Also, not all of the crews of some of the merchant ships were fully known.
There was one report in the 1990s which suggested the figure was 1,024, but there is no substance to this claim.
It is interesting to note that, at the time, the government announced that 17 people had been killed, in an effort to preserve morale.
The Australian Govermnet gives these figures of deaths of Australians, Britons and Americans. Japanese deaths were not recorded.
250-320 killed,
300-400 wounded,
23 aircraft destroyed,
10 ships sunk,
25 ships damaged
It is estimated 250 - 320 were killed in the Darwin, Australia bombings by the Japanese. 300 - 400 were wounded. There were also 23 aircraft destroyed, 10 ships sunk and 25 ships damaged.
The first attack on Darwin occurred on the 19th of February 1942, over the next two years Darwin was bombed 64 more times, which killed thousands of people.
The most common number I have found is 2,403 Americans died during the attack at Pearl Harbor. 68 civilian 2,335 military.
202 people and a further 240 people were injured.
A few days after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, 200 Japanese fighter planes bombarded the city of Darwin, over 250 people died. Why did it happen? Because the allies were using Darwin as a staging ground, where allied ships would dock refuel and return to battle. It was also strategically important because this is where many of Australias forces were being sent from to head north to PNG, Indonesia, and so on. However, the attacks on Darwin were not the last for the remainder of the war it would be bombed a further 64 times but none of them compared to the destruction as the first bombings as we were much more prepared after that.
Asia-Pacific 108,504:Army ground forces 41,592United States Air Forces 15,694Navy/Coast Guard 31,485Marine Corps 19,733Unidentified Theaters- Army 39248,316 wounded and missing
One. A man named Fernando Pereira who was a Portuguese-Dutch photographer.
88 Australians died :(
Somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were mainly Japanese, but did include a small number of people from other nations as well.
In total, about 215,000 people were killed during the atomic bombings onto Japan in 1945. 75,000 died in Nagasaki and 140,000 died in Hiroshima.
191 People
The Japanese attacked Australia on of February 1942 using 4 aircraft carriers from the 6 they used against Pearl Harbor. Those were the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu aircraft carriers. Out of forty-five ships ten were sunk and numerous others were damaged. 253 people died and 400 were wounded.
the fact that they lost supportl or favor with several countries and the fact they lost, and some Japanese people died
No. Infact, barely any people died in Australia during WW2 except for interns when they worked (japanese bombers often attacked) and the Japanese bombings of harbours.
See: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombs destroyed two cities and millions of people died in a flash. Those who didn't die suffered radiation poisoning and today there are still people sick.
52 people died in the London bombings of 7 July 2005.
202 people and a further 240 people were injured.
1500 PEOPLE DIED OVER THE COURSE OF THE 64 DIFFERENT RAIDS THAT DARWIN SUFFERED MOST OF WHOM WERE CIVILIANS
2,606 people died in the World Trade Center, not including the people on board the planes that crashed into the towers