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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...
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    The Second Battle of the Java Sea was the last naval action of the Netherlands East Indies campaign, of 1941–42. It occurred on 1 March 1942, two days...
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    The Battle of the Java Sea (Indonesian: Pertempuran Laut Jawa, Japanese: スラバヤ沖海戦, romanized: Surabaya oki kaisen, lit. 'Surabaya open-sea battle') was...
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    Campaign 1941–1942". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battle of the Java Sea. To the Java Sea: Selections from the Diary, Letters and Reports of Henry E...
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    The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java, and Sumatra. On the night...
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    (1942) Battle of Palembang (1942) Battle of Badung Strait (1942) Battle of Timor (1942–43) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Sunda Strait (1942)...
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    to retreat. The battle occurred on 4 February 1942 in the Java Sea, closer to the Kangean Islands than to Makassar Strait. This battle should not be confused...
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    The Battle of Kalijati occurred between 1 and 3 March 1942 during the Dutch East Indies campaign between invading Japanese forces and the Dutch colonial...
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    (1942) Battle of Palembang (1942) Battle of Makassar Strait Battle of Badung Strait (1942) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Second Battle of the Java Sea...
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    Marcus. "Axis History Factbook". Japanese Sixteenth Army. Klemen, L. "The conquest of Java Island, March 1942". The Netherlands East Indies 1941–1942....
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    East Indies Campaign 1941-1942. Cox, Jeffrey (November 2015). Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II (illustrated ed...
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    The First Battle of Balikpapan took place on 23–25 January 1942, off the major oil-producing town and port of Balikpapan, on Borneo, in the Netherlands...
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    The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia...
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  • Timor 1942-02-27 – 1942-03-01 Battle of the Java Sea 1942-03-01 Battle of Sunda Strait 1942-03-01 – 1942-03-09 Battle of Java 1942-03-31 Battle of Christmas...
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    The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily...
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    Karel Doorman (category 1942 deaths)
    strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship HNLMS De Ruyter was torpedoed during the battle, having chosen to...
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    The Third Battle of Changsha (24 December 1941 – 15 January 1942; Chinese: 第三次長沙會戰) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces...
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    and Java to be diverted to the battle in the Philippines and also slowed the advance on New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. During the occupation of the...
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    The Battle of Leuwiliang was a battle during the Dutch East Indies campaign of the Pacific War that took place between 3 and 5 March 1942. Australian...
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    The Battle of Palembang was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II. It occurred near Palembang, on Sumatra, on 13–15 February 1942. The Royal...
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    The Battle of Tjiater Pass occurred between 5 and 7 March 1942 during the Dutch East Indies campaign between invading Japanese forces and the Dutch colonial...
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    The Battle of Timor occurred in Portuguese Timor and Dutch Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded the island on 19 February 1942 and...
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    the Java Sea, 27 February 1942 Battle of Sunda Strait, 28 February – 1 March 1942 Second Battle of the Java Sea, 1 March 1942 Battle of Java (1942), 28...
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    The Battle of Rzhev in the summer of 1942 was part of a series of battles that lasted 15 months in the center of the Eastern Front. It is known in Soviet...
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  • The Battle of Tarakan took place on 11–12 January 1942, a day after the Empire of Japan declared war on the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Although Tarakan...
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    and tested in June of 1939 but would ultimately not be used as Batavia had already fallen in March 1942 in the Battle of Java (1942). Direct airmail connectivity...
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    of the East Indies, and fended off several air attacks. During the Battle of the Java Sea, she was ambushed by the cruiser Nachi. A torpedo struck her magazine;...
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    HMS Exeter (68) (category Battle of the River Plate)
    beginning of March in the Second Battle of the Java Sea. Most of her crewmen survived the sinking and were rescued by the Japanese. About a quarter of them...
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    The Axis capture of Tobruk, also known as the Fall of Tobruk and the Second Battle of Tobruk (17–21 June 1942) was part of the Western Desert campaign...
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    083). The Battle of the Java Sea from February to March 1942, was one of the costliest naval battles of World War II. The naval forces of the Netherlands...
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