Dutch East Indies Campaign

Dutch East Indies campaign
Part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II
Japanese forces land on Java.
Date 8 December 1941 – 9 March 1942 Location Dutch East Indies Result Japanese victory; Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
Belligerents
ABDA Command: Netherlands  Dutch East Indies  United Kingdom  United States  Australia  New Zealand	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Henry Royds Pownall Thomas C. Hart Hein ter Poorten  (POW) Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich	Hisaichi Terauchi Kiyotake Kawaguchi Ibō Takahashi Hitoshi Imamura Shōji Nishimura
Strength
148,000 troops 40,000 Dutch troops 100,000 local troops 8,000 Anglo-American troops 33 warships 41 submarines 234 aircraft	52 warships 18 submarines 50,000 troops 331 aircraft
Casualties and losses
2,384 killed 100,000+ captured	671 killed

ABDA Command:
Netherlands

 United Kingdom
 United States
 Australia

148,000 troops

The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–42 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces from the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Forces from the Allies attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war. The campaign and subsequent three and a half year Japanese occupation was also a major factor in the end of Dutch colonial rule in the region.

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