In 1942, the Japanese surged through the Dutch East Indies, conquering territory at an incredible pace. By February, Japanese ...

All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they ...

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Somewhere In Java -- Japanese invasion forces, crossing the Java sea and fighting off heavy Allied air attacks, effected three landings on the north coast of Java Sunday and were ...

This is the story of my father, who wrote this for his grand children, so they would know what he went through in WW2. The island of Indonesia is the most important and most densely populated island ...

How, exactly, did I end up on the roof of a coffeehouse in Tokyo, kneeling over a single-burner camp stove and something called a Whirley Pop? Sweat soaked my T-shirt as the wind kept blowing out the ...

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel 152, 4de Afl., JAPAN, INDONESIA AND THE WAR: Myths and realities (1996), pp. 586-608 (23 pages) ...

The Japanese claimed that 93,000 Dutch and 5,000 British, Australian and American troops had surrendered. We withdrew into the hills to wait for instructions, but first we had to blow up the guns, ...