Japan's Conquest of the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 (ALL PARTS)
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- In 1941, following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, their powerful naval forces swiftly advanced towards the Dutch East Indies. Japan aimed to secure crucial oil reserves and assert dominance in the Pacific, seeing the region as vital for sustaining their wartime efforts and expanding their influence amidst the ongoing global conflict...
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Thank you for this nice video. My late grandfather served in the KNIL (Royal Dutch Indies Army, aka Colonial Army). He fought against the Japanese on the Island of Java. After the Dutch surrender he was a POW and was transported by a "Hell-ship" to Birma to work on the Birma-Siam Railway. Very bitter was the fact that after Japan surrended he again faced a 4 year war but then in the Indonesian war of independence. Again serving as a KNIL sergeant. He never spoke about it unfortuanatly. RIP grandfather, I love you!
These videos are FIRE, brother. As a WW2 historian, I have to say it's spot on.
Thank you, Mike!
It seems all AI-generated text and voice. I feel the editing is choppy, suddenly talking about people who haven't been introduced, etc. If the actual history is actually correct that's interesting, but are there any novel points here or is it just a choppy, bad presentation of some other book?
Nice a long video on a early Pacific war campaign that you don't really hear about often in the Pacific war history
Because no one cares about it
@@jayo3074 well there are individuals that that interested in the lesser known campaigns of world war II interesting I would love to see more books or even film / shows at focus on these campaigns.
@@goodman4966
Australian historians have written many books on the war in the SW Pacific.
Main scream it’s less talked about, but it is covered generally speaking people don’t like to talk about the parts of the war where they were “losing”
Its so sad that many history channel forgets and dumps this important event of the pacific. Thank you for studying this!!
An hour of House of History?! YES PLEASE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm Indonesian and I really appreciate and thank you for covering a history about our country.
Fun fact:
one of the most important key for japanese that makes their conquest so fast and easier than their anticipate was because the rise of Indonesia nasionalism in indonesian archipelago. In that time, almost in all teritory, rise the "JONG" (Indonesian Radical party that want to revolt against DEI and promote liberte, egalite, fraternite). They claim that all area that under the colony of DEI was Indonesian (no matter in which island they are), and they all brother.
Japan knew this and they sent a lot of spies to spread rumor that japan was Asia long lost big brother (including Indonesia), and Japan goal was to liberate all Asian country from europe yoke and lead them under one Asian Empire (with japan as their leader).
The rumor was effective and before the japanese landing, in fact, all indonesian area already rise a rebellion and help japanese from inside (stealing weapon, sabotage military base and vehicle, etc).
DEI can't even amount a proper defensive strategy due to the fact that they don't have enough amount of resource for it. Japan capitalise it by launch a bliztkrieg to show to all indonesian that they are really want to help.
¿que porcentaje de indonesios colaboraron lealmente con japón durante la guerra? En la India el partido de chandra bose tenia el apoyo del 10 por ciento de la población. En china,creo que un 15 por ciento apoyó a japón. En Filipinas,el 20 por ciento.
You can say whatever you like about Japan but ultimately all Asian countries gained their independence from European colonization.
You left out how Japanese soldiers stayed in Indonesia even after Japan surrendered so they fight off the Dutch trying to regain control even after they lit the oil fields on fire.
@@danielmelenchoncarrasco1427from Britain and Dutch perspective they felt it was probably greater than 80% at the start of Japan’s campaign.
Why else would the US McArthur in the Philippines and British and Dutch all leave their respective areas so quickly.
Their hypocrisy was exposed.
Much awaited, much appreciated looking forward to excellent insights as always from you.
I hope to see more videos like this with complete collections, great video!
Another awesome post sir - well done! Always enjoy!
Nice.I love that it's a longer video
Good that the video focuses on conflicting interests between the allies particularly the British and Australians.
Nice compilation of Java Sea area battles. Love the format. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed!
Could you do a video on the land battles that led to the conquest of the Dutch East Indies?
Thank u for your hard work HOH! love these Pacific war vids!
Yes please continue with this series.
Will you do any ancient naval battles?
I like that suggestion. Anything specific you have in mind?
@@HoH Battle of actium. Marcus agrippa's Magnum opus
Portuguese conquest 😎
It was a great work about early navigation clashed between Japanese empire fleets and allies fleets in the Pacific Ocean....thank you for your wonderful ( House of History) channel..for sharing
I love your voice so much ,excellent content
it's AI. It's not a real voice.
You did an excellent job. Thanks.
That was interesting, thank you!
Can you do a breakdown or how to say the same analysis and such when HMS Conqueror sunk the General Belgrano? Cheers.
That benford guy really let us down. He was not a fletcher or an Evans thats for sure. Im halfway through and i haven't got there yet, but the saddest part is the Langley going to davey Jones locker. She would have been a great museum ship.
The Japanese takeover of the Dutch East Indies was swift and decisive, they were even able to score some self inflicted losses. Lessons were learned though, and this bloody winning streak would soon be jolted to a halt.
Oil from the oil field near Makassar could be used in ships without the need for refining. Got this from the IMPACT magazine, a US Air Force publication of the war period.
problem was that the unrefined oil was volatile; and that was later proven when a Japanese Carrier pretty much exploded because of it
an interesting history and appropriate background fir understanding how Japan's conquest lengthened the war from resources gained by control of the East Indies area. There was one aside comment of dialogue from William Holden to Alec Guinness in the film, The Bridge On The River Kwia, where he stated he was a sailor for the Houston, captured by the Japanese. R.I.P. to those Allied military men who perished from this battle.
This is a nice companion to my War on the Sea: ABDACOM Defensive campaign.
Excellent graphics of navy battles
Thanks mate
Why didn’t they come to Australia or New Zealand?
There's no resources in Aussie land unlike Dutch East Indies
Give the credit to Houston..
Wait a moment, I saw Space Battleship Yamato around thirty-two minutes.
A Very Good Telling of Naval Warfare, in World War I I , Dutch East Indies, I Enjoyed the History Lesson.👍🏽
This is why I come here
Were you going to do more ww1 naval battles? Just curious...
Any suggestions?
@@HoH Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) and Second Battle of Heligoland Bight (1917), Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau (1914), Battle of Cape Sarych (1914), Battle of Antivari (1914), Siege of Tsingtao (1914), Battle of Åland Islands (1915), Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), Bombardment of Ancona (1915), Battle of the Gulf of Riga (1915), Battle of Jutland (1916), Battle of Dover Strait (1916), Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917), and Operation Albion and Battle of Moon Sound (1917). For now, that's all I got. Once these were finished, I'll research for more and we go from there.
Excellent video. The sad thing is that if this battle was fought just 9 months later, the Dutch would win because they would of had RADAR to see at night with. Lots of brave men died trying to defend the undefendable.... RIP.
Make a video on the the sinking of Ashigara by HMS Trenchant
Sadly the wrecks of all these ships have been plundered by Chinese and Indonesian scrap metal dealers - and the world watched on and did .....nothing!! War graves deliberately desecrated!
Why were the langleys fighters not in the air?
ABDACOMMAND was an exercise in futility that should have been obvious to all. Ships, planes, men were sacrificed for nothing. The Dutch did not prepare the oil facilities for demolition either.
do the Guerra de Castas in Mexico Yucatan peninsula
PAX
THE GODDESS OF PEACE
The US navy’s performance in the early days was less than stellar….
The US and the other allies lacked experience compare to the Japanese who had been fighting the Chinese for many years.
A DD is a warship ? did you mean and a BB ? Leona
DD = Destroyer in US Navy.
A DD is indeed a warship. Destroyers are pretty impactful against battleships
Cilacap is my residence
Early in the Pacific naval war the Allies navies pretty much got their asses handed to them especially at night. In addition to Japanese naval fighting proficiency the Allies very tragically and stupidly failed to realize just how superior and deadly the Long Lance type 93 and an even more powerful were. I read that many Allied naval officers believed that the "backwards" and technically inept Asians (Japanese) weren't capable of engineering such a superior weapon as the kickass Long Lance torpedoes that could be launched from aircraft, submarines and ships with such long range capabilities. The America Armaments Division I think its called were especially guilty of this racial profiling. That was such a costly and deadly stupid blunder😊
Pronunciation of Indonesian place names not great.
Just say no to clickbait arrows.
IJA and IJN. Heroes of Indonesian Independence.
The great success of Japan in WWII was putting an end to European colonialism.
Once broken, the American World Empire encouraged the formation of many "independent" countries that were wholly unable to defend themselves in any meaningful way. Thus they were dominated by the American World Empire, while being as "independent" as they were capable of being, which often wasn't much.
China is the first significant competition to the American World Empire, but like Japan has alienated most of the countries in the area, causing them to continue to support the American World Empire.
But what will happen when the American World Empire pulls out and leaves these powerless "independent" nations to deal with China on their own?
Great comment, but I have to disagree on one point: "but like Japan (refering to China) has alienated most of the countries in the area". I think that is just the so called Western narrative. An exercise of wishful thinking.
In fact, if you pay attention to what the countries in the area say, you would realise that a mayority of them are more likely to choose the option of "not picking sides", because many of them see clearly the American intention of using them as canon fodder in an intended war by USA against China.
For all those countries, on one hand, USA offers them war psychosis and assured destruction in case of conflict between USA and China because those countries will be in the very first line of such a conflict, on the other hand, China offers them trade, investment and economic thrive. The consequence of this is that in South East Asia Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar remain very friendly to China, Thailand is increasingly leaning to China as well. Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei remain strongly neutral, resisting constant pressure from USA, and only the Philippines seems to have fallen again under USA dominance.
Japan said this but lied and didnt do it actually
@@niemand1072
Actually, the destruction of European colonialism in South Asia was one of Japan's actual accomplishments, aided by the United States.
Of course, the end result was not what Japan envisioned, but it did destroy European (and American) colonies.
@@SeattlePioneer I was talking about humans.
Japan treated the native People even worse then the colonial powers did.
The colonial powers exploited the colonies to a level where they could still develop as a developing colony means more income in the future. Japan just needed goods, supplies and resources on a short term and completely milked all the Natives (and killed all the foreigners).
"The Japanese were mostly cheered at by us when they came but after a week we were already praying for the Dutch to come back" old dutch story about the mollucians in the dutch east indies
@@niemand1072
Sounds like the same reception the Germans got during WWII when they invaded Ukraine.
I love the history of the War in the Pacific until January 1943. After that, we know now that it was just a matter
of time before the Allies won. So with hindsight, it's like watching a sports game where you know the outcome.
Not really AS interesting.
im sorry man, but balikapan is not a place, its spelled balikpapan. i understand mispronunciation of foreign words, but misspelling, especially on a map is very jarring
FJB
Thanks!