Podcasts History The WW2 Podcast 14 - The Java Sea Campaign

14 - The Java Sea Campaign

Published: March 1, 2016, 6 a.m.

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In this episode we\\u2019re looking at the Java Sea Campaign, with Jeffrey Cox.

Jeff\\u2019s book Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II from Osprey publishing, examines the events following Pearl Harbor.


In their own lighting offensive the Japanese attacked Singapore, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. The Allies reeled against the well planned assaults, struggling to hit back with any useful resistance in the first major sea battles of the war in the Pacific.

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