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...losses in these actions neither equaled the Allied losses in the Battle of Java (TIME, March 23) nor hurt the enemy as much as the disaster in the Java sea had hurt the United Nations. But the Japanese in these and previous Pacific combats had lost probably 15 to 20% of their cruisers. If their invasion clock had not been turned back, it had been thrown off Tokyo time...
...northern port of Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian base for attack on Japan's southern line...
...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...