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Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch Naval Air Force—or Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD)—played a significant but largely overlooked role in the opening months of the Pacific War. With 175 aircraft, the MLD greatly outnumbered the combined forces of its American and British allies. In three months of intense combat, the MLD lost 50 percent of its personnel and 80 percent of its aircraft, as the Netherlands' colonial empire was stripped away. This book details MLD operations during the Japanese invasion of Dutch East Indies, giving a comprehensive overview of organization, personnel, aircraft, equipment and tactics. For the first time in English, the failed evacuation of Java is examined.
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By any measure, the Netherlands East Indies was a prize of inestimable value. One Japanese force went on to seize all of eastern. Kalimantan.
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The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942, 2D Ed. (Paperback) Email or call for price. Description
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The other three commands, Allied Land Forces, Allied Air Forces and Allied Naval Forces, remained until SWPA was abolished on 2 September 1945.
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The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942, 2D Ed. (Paperback). By Tom Womack
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trol the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and Defending such a distant outpost against the rising power of Japan.
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