History Lesson: The Battle of Java Sea On the heels of Pearl Harbor, Allied forces were handed a crushing defeat by the Japanese. The battle has lessons for today’s military planners. By Robert ...

Speaking in October this year on the readiness of U.S. armed forces, then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper referenced Task Force Smith—a unit decimated in the early days of the Korean War as a ...

Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 1 (MARCH 2021), pp. 39-56 (18 pages) Three Dutch naval ships, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer, were lost during the Battle of the Java Sea ...

The area was declared a sacred war grave, Time reported. "The Battle for Java Sea is part of our collective memory," Dutch defense minister Jeanine Hennis said, according to the Dutch News.

The remains of the Dutch vessels are from the Battle of the Java Sea, which was fought in 1942 between Allied and Japanese forces.

In early November, an international diving expedition set out from Indonesia into the Sea of Java to find the wrecks of several Dutch warships that sank during World War II.

The Battle of Java Sea, fought on February 27, 1942, marked the high tide of Japanese naval power in the Pacific.