Part of a display in the excellent Military Museum of North Queensland , Jezzine Barracks, Townsville , headed Japanese Empire, in red , 1942 . Northern Territory places hit shown on the map are Darwin , see Douglas Lockwood book Australia's Pearl Harbour , Milingimbi , on the Arnhem Land coast, and Katherine , south of Darwin. The display includes photographs of the minor damage inflicted on Townsville by Japanese planes . At the tip of Cape York is Horn Island where longtime Northern Territory identity , the late Les Penhall , was stationed during the war , his story and that of his wife , Scotty, in a secret communications centre in Melbourne , run in Little Darwin . The 2019 International Military Writers' Festival will be held in Darwin April 5-7.
