What the records say
- When
- 1 Mar 1942
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 5.00° S, 110.00° E
- Description
- naval battle during World War II
- War
- World War II
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Second Battle of the Java Sea
Naval battle during World War II
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 after the first Battle of the Java Sea. It saw the end of the last Allied warships operating in the waters around Java, allowing Japanese forces to complete their conquest of the Dutch East Indies unhindered.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “seconde défaite navale alliée à la seconde bataille de la mer de Java”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Второе сражение в Яванском море”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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