In 1942, the Japanese surged through the Dutch East Indies, conquering territory at an incredible pace. By February, Japanese ...

The Battle of Java Sea, fought on February 27, 1942, marked the high tide of Japanese naval power in the Pacific. Poor organization, strategic confusion, inter-service competition, and national ...

The voice was like a voice of doom. It was the voice of Dr. Hubertus Johannes van Mook, Lieutenant Governor General of The Netherlands East Indies: It is not that dozens of battleships, scores of ...

TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod last week cabled from Melbourne this account of how the Dutchmen of Java died fighting: When the history of War II is written, that page belonging to the indomitable ...