Australia. Japanese bombing of Port Darwin. Only four days after the fall of Singapore, the last British bastion defending Australia. Sixty more bombings of Australia would follow. It became clear to Australians that the only power capable of defending them from the Japanese was the United States, no longer Great Britain. Australia would pay a heavy price for the war: 22,000 prisoners in Japanese military camps, with 36% losing their lives, compared to a 1% mortality rate for American or British prisoners in Nazi camps.
