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The Battle of Java (Invasion of Java, Operation J) was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II.It occurred on the island of Java from 28 February – 12 March 1942. . It involved forces from the Empire of Japan, which invaded on 28 February 1942, and Allied personn
However, when the Japanese troops landed and seized control of Java from the Dutch, to people's surprise, the Japanese forced the native Indonesians to stop looting and attacking Chinese and warned the Indonesians they would not tolerate anti-Chinese violence in Java. The Japanese viewed the Chinese in Java and their economic power specifically ...
Materiel was running short in Java, and neither was able to rearm or fully refuel. Departing at 19:00 on 28 February for the Sunda Strait, by chance they encountered the main Japanese invasion fleet for West Java in Bantam Bay. The Allied ships were engaged by at least three cruisers and several destroyers.
Hurricanes Versus Zeros: Air Battles over Singapore, Sumatra and Java. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1844156221. Krancher, Jan A. (2003). The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786417070.
invasion of Burma: Operation C: 1942: reconnaissance and raid operations in the Indian Ocean: Operation D: 1942: invasion of the Andaman Islands: Operation H. Invasion of Celebes (1942) Battle of Ambon; Battle of Timor; 1942: invasion of Celebes, Ambon and Timor: Operation J: 1942: invasion of Java, Netherlands East Indies: Operation K: 1942
The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command fleet were defeated at the first Battle of the Java Sea, on 27 February 1942, and its ships had been dispersed or sunk by the Japanese. The light cruiser HMAS Perth and the heavy cruiser USS Houston had retreated to Tanjung Priok, the port of the capital, Batavia, in the west of the island.
The Japanese continued their conquest of the Dutch East Indies with the capture of Timor from 20 to 23 February. The ABDA forces engaged at Badung Strait were decisively defeated in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, in which the Dutch cruisers Java and De Ruyter were sunk and Admiral Doorman was killed.
As a result, Broome was on a line of flight for Dutch and other refugees, following the Japanese invasion of Java, and had become a significant Allied military base. During a two-week period in February–March 1942, more than a thousand refugees from the Dutch East Indies—many of them in flying boats , which often served as airliners at the ...