The Fujita Salvage Operation
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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