Get over it, we weren't at the heart of World War II

[D-Day_Dodger]

I find a parallel between the Australian fears of invasion to those who lived on the west coast of North America and feared invasion after Pearl Habor. Being in a state of war has a tendency to increase national paranoia and people tend to overestimate to abilities of their enemies. I've never quite managed to figure how people could seriously believe that Japan could ever invade America, but then I wasn't there at the time.

The Australians would probably been the target of invasion if Japan's victory streak continued. If they had won the Solomon's Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea then Australia would have been a natural target. If Japan had been able to eliminate Australia as a staging ground for attacks on Japan's expanding empire the whole course of the Pacific War would have changed.