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| Location Lat 16° 27' 36S Long 145° 22' 27E Mossman is a small inland town in northern Queensland in Australia. To the south is Cairns. Wartime History On July 31, 1942 at 3:30 a Japanese Navy Type 2 Flying Boat / H8K2 Emily piloted by Mizukura dropped eight bombs, incorrectly believing the area was Cairns. One civilian, a child was wounded by a shrapnel fragment. One bomb fell that same night on a sugar cane farm at Saltwater, located sixteen kilometers from Mossman. It exploded about 50 meters from a galvanized shed owned by Selice Zeillo. His two and a half year old daughter received a wound to the head from shrapnel which pierced the house and smashed a number of windows. She was in her cot when the bomb exploded. The bomb left a large crater seven meters across and one meter deep. Metal fragments from the bomb were later found with Japanese markings on them. The Emily returned to Rabaul at 10:10am after the 17 hour mission. C-47A Dakota DT-941 Pilot X crashed September 7, 1944 near Mossman References Oz@War - Japanese Air Raid near Mossman Contribute
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