ceremony dedicated to the veterans of WWII, at the end of the 60th anniversary of ANZUS Presidential visit to Australia. WreckPeary lies in of water in Darwin Harbour, at coordinates . The wreck itself is a memorial to those who lost their lives in the first bombing raid on Australian soil and to those who defended Darwin. References Alford. Lodwick Houston. Playing for time : war on an Asiatic fleet destroyer. Bennington, Vt. : Merriam Press, 2008. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7pkr8IsgpsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Clark, Paul. Ten shipwrecks of the Northern Territory. [Darwin, N.T.] : Museums & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, c2008. McCarthy, Sophie. World War II shipwrecks and the first Japanese air raid on Darwin, 19 February 1942. Darwin : Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences, 1992. Mullin, J. Daniel. Another six-hundred : a true history in narrative form, on the employment of Destroyer Division 59, and other U.S. Asiatic Fleet destroyers during the first 85 days of World War II, written by a man about himself and others who were there. New York? N.Y. : J.D. Mullin, c1984. Steinberg, David Raising the war: Japanese salvage divers and allied shipwrecks in post-war Darwin Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, v.33, 2009: 11–18 Wilde, E. Andrew Jr. (Ed). U.S.S. Peary (DD-226) in World War II, Manila to Darwin, 12/10/41-2/19/42 : Needham, Mass. : The Editor, 2007. http://destroyerhistory.org/assets/pdf/wilde/226peary_wilde.pdf External links Northern Territory Government: WWII and Cyclone Tracy Bombing of Darwin, a Flickr photo set of the bombing of Darwin, 1942 Information on Ordnance from USS Peary Photo of Peary'' burning before sinking Clemson-class destroyers World War II destroyers of the United States Ships built by William Cramp & Sons Ships sunk in the bombing of Darwin, 1942 Maritime incidents in February 1942 1920 ships Destroyers sunk by aircraft