An Awkward TruthGrose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read. Sun Herald The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day courage, mateship, determination and improvisation the dark side of the story lingers: looting, desertion and a calamitous failure of Australian leadership. The Japanese struck with the same carrier borne force that devastated Pearl