The Second World War has several events that are widely known that made it a global conflict - the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day and Okinawa to name a few, but it wasn’t until I emigrated to Australia that I learned that the Second World War even touched the Land Down Under. The Bombings of Darwin are the largest attacks by a foreign power on Australia and it not only had a lasting impact on the city of Darwin, but it transformed Australian foreign policy forever. As the USA had declared war on Japan in 1941 after the bombings of Pearl Harbour, the American craft based in Darwin posed a potential threat to the Japanese empire. The bombing of Darwin was seen as a way of taking Timor, showing it’s domination to Australia and taking out America planes and ships.