He ran from the showers wearing only his boots, tin hat, and a towel, grabbed his gun, and took down a Japanese bomber plane. Wilbert "Darky" Thomas Hudson, known as "the naked gunner", became a national hero on February 19, 1942 – the day Darwin suffered more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Yet 84 years later, most Australians don't know this story.
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