Word: rembang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prong. The Japanese chose their first landings well (see map): near Serang in the west, a hop & skip across the Sunda Strait from invaded Sumatra; on the broad, open coasts of Indramayu Bay, 160 miles eastward from Serang; at Rembang, another 225 miles to the east. Thus the Jap with three strokes sliced up the northern Javanese coast, flanked the capital of Batavia, the Army's mountain fortress at Bandung and Java's chief naval base at Surabaya...
...Japs landed-at Rembang, only 109 miles in Surabaya's rear and 70 miles from the town where Conrad Helfrich was born. Admiral Helfrich's naval war was not over; there would be still more Jap convoys to harry and ravage. But the land battle for Java had begun. Soldiers and airmen would now do the fighting for the sailor's home...
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