Battle of Sunda Strait
1942 naval battle in the Pacific theatre of WWII, in present-day western Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the World War II battle in 1942. For French Revolutionary War engagement, see Battle of the Sunda Strait (1794).
The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java, and Sumatra. On the night of 28 February – 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth, American heavy cruiser USS Houston, and Dutch destroyer HNLMS Evertsen faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force. After a fierce battle lasting several hours, all Allied ships were sunk. Five Japanese ships were sunk, three of them by friendly fire.
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