Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history. Wind speeds ...

Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy is regarded as one of the most significant cyclones in Australia's history. At least 66 people were killed and more than 600 were injured. Eighty per cent of the city ...

Now, 50 years on, survivors of Cyclone Tracy share their incredible tales ... of people in the biggest civilian evacuation in Australian history. Some survivors had never returned to Darwin ...

“We were pretty much wiped out from history,” Collins ... Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins, Hachette Australia. Collins says of the 90 or so WRANS servicewomen ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history.

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia’s history.