Battle of the Java Sea information

Battle of the Java Sea
	Part of World War II, Pacific War
	; Bombs from a Japanese aircraft falling near the Dutch light cruiser Java in the Gaspar Strait east of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, on 15 February 1942.
Date	27 February 1942
Location	Java Sea, Dutch East Indies
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Allies; Netherlands; Dutch East Indies; ; United States; United Kingdom; Australia	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Karel Doorman †; Conrad Helfrich	Takeo Takagi
Strength
2 heavy cruisers; 3 light cruisers; 9 destroyers	2 heavy cruisers; 2 light cruisers; 14 destroyers; 10 transports
Casualties and losses
2 light cruisers sunk; 3 destroyers sunk; 1 heavy cruiser damaged; 2,300 sailors killed	1 destroyer damaged; 1 transport damaged by air raid; 36 sailors killed

5°0′S 111°0′E / 5.000°S 111.000°E / -5.000; 111.000

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 a decisive^[2] naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.

Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 and in secondary actions over successive days. The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) Strike Force commander— Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman—was killed. The aftermath of the battle included several smaller actions around Java, including the smaller but also significant Battle of Sunda Strait. These defeats led to Japanese occupation of the entire Dutch East Indies.

^ ^a ^b L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Rear-Admiral Karel W.F.M. Doorman". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942.
^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific. University of Illinois Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-252-06973-4.

[Klemen-1] L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Rear-Admiral Karel W.F.M. Doorman". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942.

[2] Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific. University of Illinois Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-252-06973-4.

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