“Where were you on January 22 1942? If you lived in Cottesloe you may have been in the throes of moving your wife and children to the hinterland.
If you lived in Geraldton, Carnarvon, Wyndham, Broome or Darwin you were sitting and waiting nervously, fearful that the enemy might arrive on the next tide…..”
Read the remainder of the article WA was hit by fear published in the News Chronicle January 22, 1992, written 50 years after the commencement of the war for the men of the AIF and allied forces at Singapore.