Opening book details…
Can I read Attack on Sydney Harbour : June 1942 on EtoBox?
Attack on Sydney Harbour : June 1942 by Doctor Tom Lewis is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Attack on Sydney Harbour : June 1942 about?
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk. War had already come to northern Australia, and now the southern cities were made bitterly aware that the world-wide conflict had reached them. The midget submarine attack was only the beginning: gun strikes were made against land targets, and more
Who reads Attack on Sydney Harbour : June 1942?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Doctor Tom Lewis
- Publisher
- Big Sky Publishing Pty, Limited
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781922765390
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military History, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Doctor Tom Lewis
Browse all works by Doctor Tom Lewis
Similar books
- A Very Rude Awakening : The Night the Japanese Midget Subs Came to Sydney Harbour — Peter Grose (2007)
- 1942 : Australia's greatest peril — David Day Bob Wurth (2010)
- The Sydney Harbour Bridge : a life — Peter Spearritt (2012)
- 1942 : the Year the War Came to Australia : the Bombing of Darwin and the Attack on Sydney by the Japanese — Peter Grose (2021)
- Sydney Harbour : a history — Ian Hoskins (2009)
- The Bridge (Sydney Harbour) — photographs by Robert Billington; text by Sarah Billington (1999)