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The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.
The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945.
The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
During World War II the entire Dutch East Indies, excepting a part of southern Netherlands New Guinea, was occupied by Japan. The years 1945–49 formed a transition period in which the Netherlands unsuccessfully tried to regain control of the islands.
The Dutch forces in the East Indies (Indonesia) unleashed a wave of untold destruction and suffering upon their colonial subjects, typified by the “counterinsurgency” campaign of Captain Raymond Pierre Westerling in 1947.
Dutch soldiers of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army march toward a confrontation with the invading Japanese on Java. When enemy forces attacked, the Dutch offered stiff resistance but were compelled to retreat and eventually surrender.
The Dutch East Indies were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. The Japanese quickly defeated the weakened Dutch colonial forces, amidst the turmoil of war in Europe, and imposed a harsh regime that exploited the region’s resources and forced labor.
The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, was formed as a colony of the Netherlands in 1800 when the country nationalized the Dutch East India Company. It expanded to the territories seen on the eve of WW2 with the annexation of the Bird's Head Peninsula in western New Guinea in 1920.
“The beginning of the end of the Dutch East Indies” is how military historians describe the Battle of the Java Sea, one of the most decisive battles of the Pacific Campaigns of World War II which took place 71 years ago on Feb. 27, 1942 in the Dutch East Indies.
Volume 3 of the series, The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies, describes in depth the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago – at that time the largest transoceanic landing operation in the military history of the world.