Year: 1976 Language: English Author: F.C. van Oosten Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd. Shepperton Edition: 1st ISBN: O 7110 0615 6 Format: PDF Quality: OCR with errors Pages count: 168 Description: The Battle of the Java Sea, viewed strategically, had little impact on the course of the war and yet it has left its scars on history. It was a fight against desperate odds, marking the end of the gallant struggle of a desperately depleted Allied fleet — American, British and Dutch — to keep the Japanese out of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. In January 1942 the Japanese advance to the South moved rapidly forward mounting an attack against British North Borneo, Davao and Jolo before moving towards the Dutch Island empire. In response to this threat a combined command was set up by the Allies, but they failed to contain the Japanese advance and towards the end of February 1 942 Java lay open to the Japanese. One of the many casualties of the naval engagements that followed was the British cruiser Exeter, the victor of the Graf Spee action in the River Plate. This account of the Battle of the Java Sea has been compiled mainly from official Dutch reports and papers and reference has been made to Japanese, American and British papers. The text is backed by maps and diagrams together with a number of vivid action pictures.
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The Battle of the Java sea
Language: English
Author: F.C. van Oosten
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd. Shepperton
Edition: 1st
ISBN: O 7110 0615 6
Format: PDF
Quality: OCR with errors
Pages count: 168
Description: The Battle of the Java Sea, viewed strategically, had little impact on the course of the war and yet it has left its scars on history. It was a fight against desperate odds, marking the end of the gallant struggle of a desperately depleted Allied fleet — American, British and Dutch — to keep the Japanese out of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. In January 1942 the Japanese advance to the South moved rapidly forward mounting an attack against British North Borneo, Davao and Jolo before moving towards the Dutch Island empire. In response to this threat a combined command was set up by the Allies, but they failed to contain the Japanese advance and towards the end of February 1 942 Java lay open to the Japanese. One of the many casualties of the naval engagements that followed was the British cruiser Exeter, the victor of the Graf Spee action in the River Plate.
This account of the Battle of the Java Sea has been compiled mainly from official Dutch reports and papers and reference has been made to Japanese, American and British papers. The text is backed by maps and diagrams together with a number of vivid action pictures.
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