20 March 1942

Japanese bombers attack Broome on the West Australian coast. Dutch pilot, Gus Winckel, waiting to be refueled at the airstrip, brings down a Jap Zero by grabbing a Colt machine gun from his plane and firing it from the shoulder.

In Terowie, South Australia, Gen MacArthur transfers trains and says: "The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary object of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.”