Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
Thirteen to Seven. The Navy bleakly told how much of the Fleet did not remain. In the battle of Java the Japanese destroyed 13 Allied warships: five cruisers, seven destroyers, an armed sloop...
...compensated for the Allied losses. The Navy carefully qualified its report that one Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were probably sunk, two other cruisers and three destroyers may have been put out of action. At best, the score was 13 to 7, the wrong way, in the battle of Java...
...Java action itself the U.S. navy lost only the heavy cruiser Houston, which had carried President Roosevelt some 25,000 miles through the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about...
...post-mortems were not pleasant, but they were not all to the bad. Admiral Hart, schooled by black experience, breathed a definite air of conviction that the U.S. can yet win its Pacific war. No submarine losses were reported in the U.S.-British summary of the battle of Java. Of five U.S. destroyers referred to in the communiqué, only one was reported lost. The Houston was the only cruiser of at least 52 which the Navy admitted losing in any theater. Comforting to Navy men was one point which seemed academic to laymen: of all the warship losses...