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The Battle of the Java Sea
Unknown Binding, 128 pages
Published
January 1st 1976
by US Naval Institute Press
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This is a short but authoritative history of a forlorn naval action that occurred early in World War II. In order to defend the "Malay Barrier"-what's Indonesia today-from Japanese invasion, the allies quickly threw together the American-British-Dutch-Australian ("ABDA") Command. The ABDA combined fleet included elderly cruisers and destroyers under the tactical command of Dutch Rear Admiral KW F M Doorman. It joined battle with a Japanese fleet of similar size but of modern ships that seriously
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