Jack Dale Mengenen - Japanese Zeros attacking Dutch Seaplanes - Roebuck Bay

            Jack Dale Mengenen (c. 1922-2013), Ngarinyin people
Japanese Zeros attacking Dutch Seaplanes - Roebuck Bay 1942
"I was in Broome [on 3 March 1942] looking after a mob of cattle for the boat. I was 20-some- thing. A bloke was yelling on the loudspeaker, 'The Japs are coming.' The planes all came in at the same time. They had a red circle and the propeller on the front. They shot at the town first and they got the water planes in the bay. They came back and shot at me and some poor buggers swimming in the bay. My mate Jim Kelly got his head shot off. He was running to get the battery to start up the truck I was hiding under. We just wanted to get out of there. There was
bullets, bombs, everything. A lot of poor buggers got killed and drowned."
At least 88 people were killed during the Japa- nese air raid on Broome on 3 March 1942, one of the most devastating attacks on mainland Aus- tralia during the Second World War. Broome was an important flying boat base through which passed thousands of civilian and military person- nel who had been evacuated from south-east Asia. The raid destroyed 22 Allied aircraft.
painted in Western Australia, 2012
acrylic on canvas
purchased in 2013
ART94857
   

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