Aussie Battler

Designed by an Austrian around an American engine, the Commonwealth Boomerang was the first frontline combat aircraft built in Australia. Barely  two  months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese  bombers attacked  Darwin, Australia’s Northern Territory capital, in the first of 97 raids.  With fears of a Japanese invasion growing, the island nation urgently needed fighter aircraft, but …

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