Item 1 of 8 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as they arrive at the Cenotaph War Memorial in Darwin, Australia November 16, 2018.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, lays a wreath along with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the Cenotaph War Memorial in Darwin, Australia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.

Lindsay Dufty remembers seeing the pilots' faces as Japanese bombers descended on Darwin in February 1942, the first ever enemy attack over Australian soil.

John van Wyhe, founder of Darwin Online and a professor at the University of Cambridge also debunked this quote in 2008, arguing that it was not found anywhere in the archived versions of Darwin ...