Dutch East Indies Campaign (Yellowstone: 1936)

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Dutch East Indies campaign
Part of the Pacific War
Japanese forces land on Java.
Date 8 December 1941–26 February 1942 (80 days) Location Dutch East Indies Result Allied Victory; Japanese forces failed to capture Dutch East Indies
Belligerents
Netherlands Dutch East Indies British Empire New Zealand Australia United States	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Henry Royds Pownall Hein ter Poorten  (POW) Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich	Hisaichi Terauchi Kiyotake Kawaguchi Ibō Takahashi Hitoshi Imamura Shōji Nishimura
Strength
51,118 troops 10 warships 1 submarine 3 aircraft	1 warship 29,921 personnel 2 tanks & tankettes 22 guns & mortars 65 motor vehicles 129 horses 7 aircraft
Casualties and losses
42 killed 77 wounded 1,099+ captured 55–110 sailors and Marines killed on the sunken ships Unknown number of sailors and Marines captured	1,238 killed 192 wounded 26,000 captured

The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1938–39 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) by forces from the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific War. Forces from the Allies attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. Indonesia was targeted by the Japanese for its rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war. The campaign and subsequent three and a half year Japanese occupation was also a major factor in the end of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia.