✦ History

Dutch East Indies campaign

December 8, 1941 – March 9, 1942 · Dutch East Indies

Result Japanese victory

Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies to take its oil and other resources. The Allied forces surrendered in March 1942 after the defeat at the Battle of the Java Sea.

On the map Overview Contemporaries

American-British-Dutch-Australian Command

Empire of Japan

Netherlands
Dutch East Indies
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Archibald Wavell military commander Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer military commander
Nobutake Kondō military commander Jisaburō Ozawa military commander Hisaichi Terauchi military commander Takeo Takagi military commander Hitoshi Imamura military commander Shōji Nishimura military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
148,000
Killed
2,384
Captured
100,000
Aircraft
234

Units

Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 36th Infantry Division (United States) Fifth Air Force
38th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Genzan Air Group Kanoya Air Group

Battles 2