Pertempuran Selat Sunda
Pertempuran Selat Sunda adalah pertempuran laut yang terjadi selama Perang Dunia II. Pada malam tanggal 28 Februari-1 Maret 1942, USS Houston Amerika Serikat dan HMAS Perth Australia menghadapi pasukan utama Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang. Setelah pertempuran sengit, kedua kapal sekutu tenggelam dan dua kapal Jepang tenggelam.
Pertempuran Selat Sunda | |||||||
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Bagian dari Perang Dunia II, Perang Pasifik | |||||||
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Pihak terlibat | |||||||
Australia Amerika Serikat | Jepang | ||||||
Tokoh dan pemimpin | |||||||
Hector Waller † Albert H. Rooks † |
Kenzaburo Hara Takeo Kurita | ||||||
Kekuatan | |||||||
2 cruisers |
1 pengangkut pesawat tempur ringan, 1 seaplane carrier, 5 cruisers, 12 kapal penghancur troop transports small combat vessels | ||||||
Korban | |||||||
Kedua cruiser tenggelam 696 tewas, 368 selamat (Houston) 375 tewas, 307 selamat (Perth) [1] | 1 ranjau dan 1 transpor tenggelam |
Akhir Februari 1942, Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang bersiap untuk melakukan invasi ke Pulau Jawa, Hindia Belanda. Pada tanggal 27 Februari, angkatan laut gabungan American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), dibawah pimpinan Admiral Karel Doorman, berlayar dari Surabaya untuk menghadang kekuatan invasi Jepang.
Referensi
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
- Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
- Hornfischer, James D. (2006). Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80390-5.
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- Whiting, Brendan (1995). Ship of Courage: The Epic Story of HMAS Perth and Her Crew. Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited. ISBN 1-86373-653-0.
- Winslow, Walter G. (1984). The Ghost that Died at Sunda Strait. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-218-4.- Firsthand account of the battle by a survivor from USS Houston
- Winslow, Walter G. (1994). The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-928-X.
Pranala luar
- Naval History (no date), "1942 03 01 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Sunda Strait"
- G. Hermon Gill, 1957, Official Histories – Second World War Volume I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942 (1st ed,) Ch. 16 "Defeat in ABDA"
- "US Navy report of the battle from 1943". Diakses tanggal 2006-05-17.
- United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific) - Naval Analysis Division (1946). "Chapter 3: The Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and Southeast Asia". The Campaigns of the Pacific War. United States Government Printing Office. Diakses tanggal 2006-11-20.
- Muir, Dan Order of Battle - The Battle of the Sunda Strait 1942
- L., Klemen, 1999-2000, The Netherlands East Indies 1941-42, "The conquest of Java Island, March 1942" (http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/java.html, the Geocities link can only be added by an established user)