Nine Zeros, Nine Stories is a collaboration between two Australian artists, Perth based Paula Hart and Broome local Lok Chris Maher. The work aims to reveal and enhance the history and curiosity of the many perspectives of the Japanese attack on Broome, Western Australia on 3 March 1942. It stands as a silent legacy to those who lost their lives, and the impact on this remote Australian community.
The nine figures stand less than 2km from, and looking out to, the site of one of the fifteen wrecks, a Catalina FV-N. The figures stand among the silhouettes of nine Zeros arranged into three Shotai flying formations depicted coming from the southwest, the flight path they took on March 3, 1942.