The things they don't tell you at the time
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (357871)
Rockingham, Australia
July 8, 2025 7:57pm CST
The photo is of a kitchenette that was in the Chittering/Bindoon Museum but doesn’t have much connection to the following, just that it was in the same building.
There were several rooms devoted to World War I and II. One map gave the number of bombing raids that occurred on our northern shores. At the time, these raids carried out by Japan were hushed up to stop any scare-mongering. That couldn’t happen nowadays of course.
I knew Darwin had been bombed a couple of times but I knew little about any other bombing raids. However, Darwin was bombed 64 times, Horn Island seven times, Broome and Townsville three times, Wyndham twice, Catherine, Onslow, Mossman and Derby were bombed once each.
I realise this is nothing compared to what European cities went through, but I’m surprised at just how many cities were bombed. We were taught nothing about this through our school years.
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@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
True. Those who settled Australia were never portrayed as 'invaders' in the history books.
@xFiacre (13894)
• Ireland
3h
@JudyEv And of course those who fought the invading Nazis in France we’re known as the Resistance, whereas those who fought the invading Europeans in Afghanistan, Kenya, Malaysia etc are recorded in European documents as Terrorists. Oh I’d love to edit the news.
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@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
The war came a lot closer to us than most of us ever realised.
@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
Those in the south knew very little about it at the time.
@sathviksouvik (20943)
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3h
@JudyEv thanks Judy yes awareness creation is also required in the topic
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@LindaOHio (193904)
• United States
5h
In every country the government hides what it doesn't want you to know!!!
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@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
I'm sure that's true but with the technology that's available nowadays it's a bit harder for them to do it.
@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
Hopefully but the world is still pretty unstable at the moment.
@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
I was amazed that there was as much as there was. We knew very little about it in the south.
@FourWalls (76418)
• United States
7h
I just wrote a discussion about the POW camps in the US. I had never heard of that until a few years ago, when I discovered it reading on my own.
Even in the 1940s, I don’t know how they could have kept a town being bombed once (never mind 64 times!) that big a secret!!
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@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
I found it a bit staggering too that the south didn't know more about it. I was a bit young but I don't remember hearing any talk about it in later years. Communication would have been much more difficult and perhaps they put a 'gag' on those operating the telephone systems.
@Vikingswest1 (6455)
• United States
9h
It's been this way since Rome fell. Military leaders write history books. Historians record history. In my years in Junior High and Senior High school, I was taught that we invaded Panama to build the canal, that we were invited to build the Panama canal, and that the US joined militarily with Panama to defeat the tribes that held that territory to take it for the canal. Like you, we were not taught true historical events, just the official story.
I think every country since the beginning of time teaches what they want to be the truth to be and the historians record the actual events.
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@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
I'm sure you're right. You only get told what the authorities want you to know.
@JudyEv (357871)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
I think just about every house in Australia had a kitchette that would have been similar to this one.
@MarieCoyle (46022)
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4h
I think I learned more about world history, and wartime happenings and conditions, in college than I ever did in high school. So many had it so very hard.
@Beestring (15583)
• Hong Kong
5h
My be you can find such information in a encyclopedia.
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@Ineeddentures (9243)
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9h
Wonder why they didn't want you to be taught this stuff
Did they think it might lead to a hatred of all things Japanese?
Or perhaps the truth would traumatised you
Our schools held nothing back
In primary school we were taught about the Holocaust and in 1966 Scottish kids were actually encouraged to support England in the world cup final against the Germans.
I wanted Germany to win.
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