Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published a 102-volume military history of Imperial Japan’s involvement in the Pacific War. This book, the first full and unabridged translation of a volume from the series, describes in great detail the operation to capture the Dutch East Indies, which at the time was the largest transoceanic landing operation ever attempted.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyrights
- Contents
- Editor Note
- About the Senshi Sōsho (War History Series)
- Foreword
- Ch. 1. Outline of the Operation
- Ch. 2. Situation of the Dutch East Indies
- Ch. 3. Operational Preparations Prior to the War
- Ch. 4. Opening of Hostilities and Capture of the Forward Advance Bases Davao and Jolo
- Ch. 5. Decision to Advance [the Schedule of] the Java Operation and the Sixteenth Army
- Ch. 6. The Launch of the Dutch East Indies Operation
- Ch. 7. The Capture of Java’s Dehors
- Ch. 8. The Invasion of Java
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index Personal Names
- Index Place Names