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Military units were placed on alert in Western Australia in March 1944 after Allied code breakers detected the movement of a powerful force of Japanese warships in the Netherlands East Indies. The previous month, the Allies had become alarmed about the movement of the main Japanese fleet to Singapore. Reinforcements, including six Royal Australian Air Force flying squadrons, were dispatched in March to safeguard Fremantle, Perth, and other cities. Other Allied air units, held at Darwin in the Northern Territory, were available to respond to raids on that town, or to reinforce Western Australia if the Japanese fleet was sighted. An air raid warning was sounded in Fremantle and Perth on 10 March, but proved to be a false alarm. Intensive patrols by the Allied militaries did not detect any Japanese warships off Western Australia, and most units were stood down on 12 March. The redeployment ended on 20 March, after it was concluded that an attack was unlikely. (Full article...)
See WT:TFA#Fourth quarter 2018 blurbs. This is just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 19:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)