Rucksack made for Dutch East Indies Army. Japanese issued Prisoner's of War with this captured equipment. It belonged to Jim Smith from Salisbury. He was a radar technician in the RAF when he was ...

March: Japan takes Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies; Rangoon ... three Japanese aircraft carriers and 450 aircraft during the invasion of Saipan. July: Americans take Saipan, Tinian, and ...

the East Indies prepared for a confrontation with the Imperial Japanese Army. Hissink was told to stay put. Japanese forces launched their invasion in January 1942; they would conquer the Dutch ...