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In February 1942, the Allies had faced the Japanese invasion forces at Badung Strait and the Java Sea. Having severely lost the Battle of the Java Sea, the remaining Allied fleet prepared to leave Java behind and sail to Australia. Among the departing ships were the USS Houston and HMAS Perth. The cruisers attempted to circumvent any Japanese naval presence, but accidentally sailed straight into a major amphibious landing operation at the Sunda Strait…
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I swear crusiers and destroyers have nerves of steel. The amount of last stands and final battles these ships types have faced is truly remarkable. Their captains and admirals have literal balls of steel. Even when they outnumbered and outgunned they still keep fighting. It is truly extraordinary!
I love watching these naval battle videos. Both the USS Houston and HMAS Perth fought to the last shell.
Have you considered doing the battles of Jutland or Doggerbank in WW1?
Of course Jutland alone would be a huge undertaking given the sheer number of encounters and their consequences, not to mention the many contrasting examples of incompetence and brilliance of the senior commanders.
(I'm especially looking at you Beatty)
I'd love to see your take on those.
Please make video on pearl harbor 1941 and Battle of Leyte gulf of ww2
Forced the Japanese to shoot their own ships, I was beginning to wonder, considering the position of the ships at the start of the battle, if that would happen, I was not disappointed.
They no longer make men like these with balls of steel
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That Marine firing away with his rifle is legendary. ABDACOM fell hard but but fought harder and they sure gave the IJN quite the startle here. Of all the allied vessels involved in this campaign only the humble Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen survives to the present as a museum ship, her crew disguised her in jungle foliage to escape to safety.
10:29 Japan: oops
I already read some books and reports about those incidents but this new graphics gives me a whole new insight overviewing the battles
Small correction at 13:15 . Rentz actually was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the only US Navy Chaplain to do so in WW2. It was Captain Rooks that was posthumously awarded the MoH for his actions mentioned in commanding USS Houston.
Great video!⚔🔥👏
How about the Battle of Leyte gulf or the Battle of the Philippine sea ??
They attack on situations where they know they all are going to die
Thanks
So… were the port batteries of Perth and Houston firing at the transports during all of this?
Poor ABDA – their units were basically the Washington Generals of WWII.
This only happened because the Port Admiral of Batavia was an arsehole
World of tanks "historically accurate" 💀
Accidentally clicked on wrong one. Thought it was bazbattles. Even the voice sounds the same😂
10:20 certified Imperial Navy moment..
"Sir, there're Army transport nearby!"
"Even better"
And here's when Binford DD group would have been of big help to screen the CAs
Regarding the troop transport being hit by own torpedo screens.. Its hard for me not to think about how bad the navy/army relationship was back then.. like water and oil
13:49 "Let Houston have the Credit"
General Inomura's reply to Japanese Admiral after sinking her ship.
I remember once hearing about a Dutch ship escaping this area at this time while disguising itself as a small island. I think it made it to Australia. Just forgot the ships name.
What is tragic is that both of the War Graves of USS Houston and HMAS Perth have been illegally salvaged and likely nothing remains. The RAN were recently denied permission by Indonesia to do another survey of the wrecks.
Houston and Perth were extremely lucky to have made it unscathed to the entrance to the Sunda Strait. Their ships were damaged, their ammunition low, and their crew was exhausted. They were heavily outnumbered and out gunned. Why in God’s name did they turn around and head north instead of heading south through the Japanese transport ships and into the safety of the open ocean? Perhaps a death wish?
It was a real charge into death by the two Allied ships. The captains had to know that the inevitable result would be the sinking of both ships and loss of many of the crews.
The destroyer Evertsen has nerves if steel to go into a losing battle she could have easily saved herself not for the selfless act of saving allies though she was outnumbered and outgunned. Extraordinary ❤
Funfact: One of the Japanese sinking transport carried the early (possibly the first ever) phonograph record of Indonesian anthem recorded in Tokyo. It's planned this record along with the other lost Japanese made indonesian flag will be used for propaganda purposes.
Hello
ur use of terms (heroic) is pretty distasteful. putting on DONT RECOMMEND CHANNEL. alas
Rear Admiral Takeo Kurita is 栗田 健男 in Japanese. Kurita=栗田、Takeo=健男。
You could have mentioned the dutch piece of garbage called Admiral Conrad Helfrich. He gave the two ships the wrong information of where the Japanese ships were located.
theres not many videos besides one other to do with this battle that mention anything about the dutch destroyer that tried to enter the battle to assist USS Houston and HMAS Perth so congrat on that extra info cant ignore the courage the crew of the dutch destroyer had to choose to fight
Nem de graça temos q aceitar pois a manutenção é cara, investir na indústria nacional seria mais inteligente. Mas no Brasil a corrupção impera em detrimento a indústria nacional.
I forget which, but I remember someone remarked Royal Navy destroyer captains were true death or glory types. It seems it spreads to cruiser captains as well.
lol Losers!
Will you continue the Prussian wars?
A very unusual/interesting battle. But one thing stood out to me: The japanese only lost a handful of men despite loosing 4 ships to torpedoes?
Especially with those 4 being troop carriers I would have expected WAY WAY WAY more losses there oO
December 1961 Indian Liberating of the Portuguese colony of Goa : Sinking of Portuguese frigate Alfonso de Albuquerque
Never send a brit to do an Americans job 😉
Those 8 inch Heavy Cruisers of the IJN were like ravenous predators of the southern seas in those days. They also had the best optics early in the war and could land destructive salvoes of 8-inch armor piercing rounds which could kill a light cruiser or destroyer.
Many of them could do 35 knots, were well armored against 6-inch light cruisers and had a fearsome battery of Long Lance topedoes.
Housten and Perth never stood a chance.
The Houston and Perths , resting place has been dug up and salvaged for scrap.
Shame on the governments of the USA and Australia.
Vale
I never realized that Japanese type 93 torpedoes in 1942 had an effective range of 25 miles. The US Mark 14 only had a 5 mile range coupled with the problems of duds and being out of control at times it's no wonder the Japanese dominated the Pacific for 2 years. A good Japanese destroyer Captain could be just as effective as a main Battleship at range.
Can we have a video on HMAS Hobart & Adelaide, so little attention is given to them but if anyone has mentions for them.
RIP classical warfare videos