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From: cdf%naucse.UUCP@arizona.edu ("Ghost" Fischer)
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Subject: Dutch in WW2
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Date: 22 Jul 89 04:44:51 GMT
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From: cdf%naucse.UUCP@arizona.edu ("Ghost" Fischer)
>Dutch territories were controlled by the Dutch government-in-exile, located
>(I think) in England.  (It was the US, the British, and the Dutch g-i-e who
>decided to cut off Japan's oil supply in retaliation for events in China,
>thus precipitating Pearl Harbor.)  How the details of this worked, I don't
>know offhand.
>
>                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
In William Manchester's "The Glory and the Dream"(TGD), it describes the
Battle of Java Sea.  The Allied fleet was commanded by a Dutch Admiral
and his commands had to be translated for the commanders of his ships.
The allied fleet was outmatched, with the largest being 2 Cruisers 
compared to the Japanese 4 battleships and 5 carriers.  Half of the
Dutch ships went down before the Japanese planes finished off the rest.
The last two surviving ships were the U.S.S. Houston and the Australian
Perth and were sunk trying to escape through Sunda Straight.

Also TGD, says that the Dutch were very angry about Field Marshal Wavell
flying off to India and leaving them to their fate.