Battle of Sunda Strait

Wann

28. Feb. 1942 – 1. März 1942

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

5.97° S, 105.77° E

Description

1942 battle

Naval

ja

War

World War II

Im Gebiet platziert, nicht an einem genauen Ort.

1942 naval battle in the Pacific theatre of WWII, in present-day western Indonesia

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 of 28 February – 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth, American heavy cruiser USS Houston, and Dutch destroyer HNLMS Evertsen faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force.

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