Officially they're known as Barracudas, but we should think of them as Turnbull Class boats, as his absurd decision to re-engineer nuclear vessels as diesel-electrics will, like their patron, bring nothing but failure and grief: The solution: off-the-rack, US-made nuclear vessels

The devastating first assault on Darwin included 188 aircraft: thirty-six fighters, eighty-one high-level bombers and seventy-one dive-bombers. The Japanese forces then settled down to a pattern and the bombers kept coming, from Exmouth to Townsville, over the next two years