The Fujita Salvage Operation

1959-1961

When the Japanese bombed Darwin in 1942, no one expected they would be back to clean up 17 years later. In what became an extraordinary act of post-war reconciliation, a Japanese firm, the Fujita Salvage Company, arrived in Darwin in 1959 to remove the many large shipwrecks still in the harbour.

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