This article, “Pacific Theatre Part 8: In Which We Look at a Land Down Under,” by Lestrade, questions the historical accuracy of Japanese attacks on Australia during World War II. The author uses a conspiratorial lens to argue that events like the Bombing of Darwin and the Attack on Broome were fabricated or exaggerated. The text suggests that staged explosions, doctored photographs, and fabricated casualty figures were used to create a narrative of Japanese aggression to rally public support for the war. The author also scrutinizes the story of John F. Kennedy and the sinking of the PT-109, suggesting his heroic tale is also a fabrication, possibly orchestrated by his influential father. The piece highlights inconsistencies in historical accounts, photographic evidence, and official reports to support its claims of widespread deception in the Pacific Theatre’s narrative concerning Australia.
Here is a list of subjects, names, references, locations, companies, etc.:
- Pacific Theatre
- Lestrade aka Unpopular Opinion
- UK
- Japanese tactical nuclear weapon
- Fūjin’s Breath
- Melbourne
- Australia
- Bombing of Darwin
- Wikipedia
- Battle of Darwin
- Japanese aircraft
- Timor
- Java
- World War II
- Rabaul
- Americans
- Mission to Rabaul
- Tojo
- Guadalcanal
- Chuk Lagoon
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- darwin
- RAAF
- Netherlands East Indies (Dutch East Indies; NEI)
- Ambon
- Washington
- U.S. Army General Staff
- Brisbane
- Philippines
- Japanese submarines
- I-121
- I-123
- Admiral Chūichi Nagumo
- Captain Mitsuo Fuchida
- Midway
- Akagi
- Rear Admiral Ryūnosuke Kusaka
- Pearl Harbour
- ONI
- Saipan
- Christian convert
- United States
- Europe
- Sydney
- Australian Army
- QF 3.7-inch AA guns
- Lewis Guns
- No. 12 Squadron
- CAC Wirraway
- No. 13 Squadron
- Lockheed Hudson
- No. 2 Squadron
- United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawks
- USS Peary
- Timor Sea
- Bikini Atoll
- ships Wiki page
- Bermingham
- LTJG R.L. Johnson
- LT W.J. Catlett
- US Navy
- Asiatic Fleet
- Navy List
- Northern Territory government
- Japanese airman
- 1st Carrier Air Fleet
- Kaga
- Hiryū
- Sōryū
- Ambon
- Kendari
- Celebes
- Pearl Harbour
- Phoenician numerology
- Nakajima B5N (“Kate”)
- Aichi D3A (“Val”)
- Mitsubishi A6M (“Zero”)
- Commander Mitsuo Fuchida
- Kangaroo Edition
- Bathurst Island
- Sacred Heart mission
- Father McGrath
- Australian coastwatcher
- Amalgamated Wireless Postal Radio Station
- Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Operations
- Kupang
- West Timor
- Neptuna
- TNT
- depth charges
- Stokes Hill Wharf
- Lookout Mountain Air Station
- Los Angeles
- Hollywood
- Dutch Harbour
- Northwestern
- Melville Island
- Tiwi people
- Bathurst Island
- Snake Bay
- Japanese pilot
- Hajime Toyoshima
- Matthias Ulungura
- revolver
- Native Americans
- American
- Tadao Minami
- Australian POW camp
- Cowra POW camp
- Cowra Breakout
- German
- Italian
- Ralph Jones
- Benjamin Hardy
- Cowra prison camp
- Mitsubishi G3M
- Mitsubishi G4M
- RAAF North-Western Area Command (NWA)
- Douglas Lockwood
- Wing Commander Stuart Griffith
- Squadron Leader Swan
- Darwin Lands Acquisition Act 1945
- Bank of New South Wales
- Chinese Whispers
- Google Image
- Hardy Boys
- Lowe Commission
- USS William B. Preston
- Peter Grose
- An Awkward Truth
- Lewis and Ingman
- Carrier Attack
- Peter Forrest
- Jack Burton
- Harry Macredie
- Rex Ruwoldt
- AP article
- Bradford and Forrest
- Stanley, Grose, Rosenzweig, and Tom Lewis
- Womack
- Chris Coulthard-Clark
- Manunda (hospital ship)
- Miles
- Dutch
- Broome
- Western Australia
- pearly port
- flying boats
- KLM Douglas DC-3 airliner
- PK-AFV
- Bandung
- £150,000 – 300,000
- A$20–40 million
- Roebuck Bay
- Broome Airfield
- Lt Zenjiro Miyano
- Dai 3 Kōkūtai (3rd Air Group)
- Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
- Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighters
- Mitsubishi C5M2 reconnaissance plane
- USAAF B-24A Liberator
- Karrakatta
- Perth War Cemetery
- Japanese
- diamonds
- Warrant Officer Osamu Kudō
- ground fire
- Dutch ML-KNIL pilot
- First Lieutenant Gus Winckel
- Lodestar
- Catalina flying boats
- Japanese presence
- north Queensland
- Townsville
- Mossman
- Kawanishi H8K1 “Emily” flying boats
- P-39 Airacobras
- agricultural research station
- Oonoonba
- coconut plantation
- Drysdale River Mission
- Walalamborghini
- Bendigo
- Sydney Harbour
- Newcastle
- Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines
- M-14
- M-21
- M-24
- Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net
- USS Chicago
- HMAS Kuttabul
- Sydney’s northern beaches
- Axis naval activity
- Axis
- Garden Island
- K-IX (Dutch submarine)
- Royal Australian Navy
- Royal Navy
- HMAS Kuttabul (stone frigate)
- Australian War Memorial
- I-21 (Japanese submarine)
- Fort Scratchley
- BHP steelworks
- David Jenkins
- psychological warfare
- Port Gregory
- I-165 (Japanese submarine)
- Lieutenant Commander Tatenosuke Tosu
- Guadalcanal
- Solomon Islands
- 100-mm (3.9-inch) shells
- Type 88 deck gun
- crayfish cannery
- ammunition factory
- Western Australia
- Perth
- AHS Centaur
- Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Centaur
- Queensland
- 14 May 1943
- 268 died
- 63 of the 65 army personnel
- British
- Red Cross markings
- 12th Field Ambulance
- New Guinea
- Moreton Island
- 1907 Hague Convention
- Japan
- war crimes tribunal
- I-177 (Japanese submarine)
- 1970s
- 1944 and 1948
- Nakagawa
- Jürgen Rohwer
- Chronology Of The War At Sea
- Japanese Rear Admiral Kaneyoshi Sakamoto
- History of Submarine Warfare
- Japanese Navy
- Nakagawa
- 1991
- German historian
- 1970’s
- 1972
- Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses
- 47 (ship’s number)
- anchor
- BBC article
- December 2009
- David Mearns
- Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney
- German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
- 1941
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
- Japanese battleship Musashi
- Sibuyan Sea
- oceanography
- underwater paint rust
- Titanic
- Titanic paper
- tannins
- sea creatures
- Charlottesville
- Vigilant Citizen
- The Ballad of PT-109
- President of the United States
- John F Kennedy
- Elco PT patrol boat
- PT-109
- Mark 8 (torpedo)
- Navy
- Pentagon
- taxpayer
- [[World War II]]
- bad back
- ulcers
- asthma
- 4-F
- U.S. Army’s Officer Candidate School
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- Captain Allan Goodrich Kirk
- USN
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- Boston doctor
- October 1941
- ensign
- Inga Arvad
- Danish journalist
- Naval Reserve Officers Training School
- Chicago
- John F. Kennedy
- Harvard University
- Naval Affairs Committee
- Massachusetts Senator David I. Walsh
- Solomon Islands
- South Pacific
- island hopping
- Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 2
- Tulagi Island
- Operation Watchtower
- Cartwheel
- Papa New Guinea
- Rochambeau (troop carrier)
- 14 April
- 23 April
- Lt. John F. Kennedy aboard the PT-109
- Lt. JG Kennedy at the helm of PT-109
- PT-109 crew
- collage
- Battle of Blackett Strait
- Japanese destroyer
- Rabaul
- New Britain
- New Guinea
- Kolombangara
- PT-162
- PT-169
- Commander Warfield
- radio silence
- phosphorescent wake
- Japanese aircraft
- Amagiri (Japanese destroyer)
- Vila Plantation
- 8°3′S 156°56′E
- 2:27 a.m.
- fireball
- aviation fuel
- Seamen Andrew Jackson Kirksey
- Harold William Marney
- MM1 Patrick McMahon
- Starkey and Harris
- 12 hours
- Plum Pudding Island
- Ferguson Passage
- Lenny Thom
- Olasana Island
- George Ross
- Naru Island
- Biuku Gasa
- Eroni Kumana
- Melanesian coastwatchers
- pidgin English
- Ensign Thom
- John Kari
- yams
- dugout canoe
- Sub-lieutenant Reg Evans
- Australian coastwatcher
- Mount Veve volcano
- Japanese troops
- secret messages in coconuts
- Kennedy’s presidential inauguration
- 1961
- Honiara
- Western Province of the Solomon Islands
- National Geographic
- Robert Ballard
- The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109
- Max Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Jimi Hendrix
- All Along The Watchtower
- Guadalcanal related
- Lime in the Coconut
- The Thin Red Line (film)
- John Travolta
- Sean Penn
- Mt. Austen