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Japanese carrier aircraft bomb Darwin
Thursday, February 19, 1942 www.onwar.com
Japanese bombing of Darwin in northern AustraliaIn Australia... 150 Japanese aircraft from four of the carriers which fought at Pearl Harbor, attack Darwin in Northern Australia. The attack damages harbor installations and sinks a number of warships.
From Washington... General Dwight D. Eisenhower, is appointed chief of the War Plans Division of the US Army General Staff.
In Vichy France... After their arrest by the order of Marshal Petain, General Gamelin and former Prime Ministers, Reynaud and Blum are put on trial for the French loss in this war. The defendants present evidence which tends to implicate the entire French military establishment, many of whom are now serving in the Vichy Government. The trial is adjourned and never completed.
In London... Prime Minister Churchill announces War Cabinet changes. Sir Stafford Crippins, former ambassador to Moscow, replaces Arthur Greenwood and Sir Kingsley Wood.
In the East Indies... The Japanese continue their expansion with the invasion of Bali.