In 1942, the Japanese surged through the Dutch East Indies, conquering territory at an incredible pace. By February, Japanese troop convoys advanced towards Java, as they were met by a small Allied fleet under Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman. The Battle of the Java Sea was the Allies’ last stand in the East Indies.
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Dutch navy incompetence
Balikpapan not Balikapan
Damn what a clusterfuck
Dutch men sacrificed for a corrupt government. And it is still going on.
Amazing work again!!!!
But it would be perfect if you put the actual ship into the Profile, like in this time @5:37 it says Nachi but the profile show the Yamato Class
@ 5:52 the IJN Light Cruisers Jintsu and Naka shows the same profile as the one in Nachi.
Myoko not Mayoko
04:57 What battleships?
According all accounts I can found, the Doorman's squadron was in fact sailing from east to west along northers shore of Java when Jupiter hit the mine – not north as suggested here… Also in the night action Nachi and Haguro were sailing north when firing torpedoes, not south. The daytime part is depicted quite accurately but the night time not as much 🙁
So I guess no court martial for the US destroyers who abandoned the fleet??
Doorman lost Java, same old mistakes thinking that he could take on the Japanese navy without air support.
Nice video guys I respect your work
Jeez. The Allies shoot like imperial stormtroopers in these engagements. 🤦🏻♂️
You really need to add scale indicators to your maps. At 14:28 you mention they opened fire at each other "at extreme range", but the visualization fails to coney ANY sense of scale at all.
will you do a video about the battle of Rorke's Drift?
You should do the Battle of Jutland next
But if you wanna do a more challenging and more less known one, do Operation Seroja, Indonesia’s Invasion of East Timor.
Dramatic music, nice graphics, but countless errors. Let someone write the script who has knowledge of WW2 naval warfare!
There is a new update to the Nov 13th battle by Robert Lundgren, the man who identified how many shells hit the Kirishima. He wrote an article called The Naval Battle for Henderson Airfield and was able to discover that it was the Japanese who killed Norman Scott, then USN cruisers that fired more rounds into Atlanta causing further friendly fire.
Nice video. Quick question; what is the name of the track you are using at 7:31?
Great to see Indonesia liberated from dutch oppression!
Was there a tribunal to judge the dutch crimes or were those cowards able to run in time
In reference to General Percival gaining a VC…He did not, but he had won MC in the Great War.
Say lon is how you say Ceylon.
Americans led by Binfort left the battle on their own initiative. Why?
My Grandad was on HMS Jupiter and he told me all about the battle. I have he's Diaries of the ships they thought it was a Torpedo sunk the ship but it was a mine. He was in the water 3 nights and 3 Days. And Eventually got picked up by a Japanese ship.
And was taken to Japanese War Camp and and the things he told me what happened in the camp 😢..
7:22 with a turret failing they loaded 64 salvos to keep up with the rest of the ships and fleets salvos, and they did this BY HAND!?
Very impressive and very brave.
The AI voiceover is very good but still off in some cases. A bit more fine tuning might be needed! See for example 10:38 – 10:46, very unnatural