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Hobart streets dug up for air raid shelters as WWII threat crept further south

Bomb shelters like this one in Hobart became a common feature in backyards. (Tasmanian Archives: Mercury Historical Collection)

Images of people huddling in bomb shelters during World War II are often associated with London and other cities at risk from the air.

But in 1941 — despite being on the other side of the world — the threat of air bombings was very real in the minds of Tasmanians.

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