Japan’s move on Bali forced ABDA into a rushed, multi-wave attack with cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats arriving piecemeal. Torpedoes missed, formations scattered, ships were hit and crippled, ...
The Japanese conquered Java in eight days. They surged inward from the northern coasts, took the capital at Batavia, chopped up the long island into isolated bits, reduced the naval base at Surabaya ...