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March 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The story goes that the alarm was never sounded when the Japanese bombed the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
Being a Sunday, the air raid siren operator had the day off, so no one immediately knew what was happening when nine enemy planes flying in an arrowhead formation circled three times then began dropping bombs.
“It was scary,” said Ivy Brumby, whose father Dodger Kodjalwal is listed as the only confirmed casualty of the attack.
“I was crying,” Mrs Brumby recalled on Thursday, the 70th anniversary of the attack.
“My mother grabbed me and my sister, took me down to the river and covered me up with blankets.”
Mrs Brumby says her sister also died from wounds sustained in the attack that took her father’s life, and others agree the death toll from the bombing may be higher than is currently known.
At the time of the bombing Katherine was flooded with refugees from Darwin, who had fled after the Japanese attack on that city a month earlier, and US and Australian troops were also stationed at Katherine.
About 300 people braved hot, sticky conditions in Katherine on Thursday to commemorate the bombing.
Sadie Ludwig, who was just a girl when the attack occurred, said she had been lucky to survive after her mother took the family from their home to take cover in bushland.
“She wasn’t going to sit at home and let the Japanese bomb us in our own homes,” she said.
But the family was probably put in more danger.
The Japanese dropped many bombs on large boulders on the town’s outskirts which they wrongly believed were camouflaged planes and equipment.
In the remains of the bombs recovered afterwards were found razor blades, nuts and bolts.
At the ceremony to remember the bombing, NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson laid a wreath in honour of Mr Kodjalwal, and a plaque was unveiled at what some believe was the site of his death, near one of the boulders hit by shrapnel from the bombs.
Like the bombing of Darwin, the attack on Katherine was suppressed by the government at the time so as not to scare people in Australia’s southern cities.
Mr Henderson said what Katherine went through should never be forgotten.
“It is generally not well understood that Katherine was bombed at all,” he said.
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