Java Sea 1942 by Mark Stille & Jim Laurier

Author:Mark Stille & Jim Laurier
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472831620
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

At 1225hrs, Doorman cancelled the operation and the Combined Striking Force headed west to Soerabaja. The two American cruisers were sent to Tjilatjap, where Hart had assembled all of the Asiatic Fleet’s support ships. Hart believed that Doorman should have pressed the attack with his undamaged ships, and Doorman was rattled by the entire affair. The first operation of the Combined Striking Force ended in fiasco, primarily because of the direct route selected for the Allied force to use in the face of Japanese airpower. Marblehead was forced to go to Ceylon for repairs and would not return. Houston, even with one of her main battery turrets permanently out of action, remained in the fight.

The action on February 4 temporarily crippled Doorman’s striking force. This meant that when a Japanese invasion force departed Staring Bay on February 6 with orders to occupy Makassar on southern Celebes, it was unopposed by Allied surface forces. The only defending unit in position was the American submarine S-37. She scored a rare early-war success for US Navy submarines by putting a torpedo into one of the IJN’s most modern destroyers, the Kagero-class Natsushio on 8 February off Makassar. The following day, salvage efforts were abandoned, and the destroyer sank. On February 9, the Japanese landed at Makassar and quickly occupied this key port. The road to Java was open.

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