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	Battle of Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon Bennett 's two brigades, from the Australian 8th Division, responsibility for the western sector of the island, including the prime invasion points on the north-west side of the island.
		Command and control problems — and the failure to reinforce front line units — caused further cracks in the Allied defence.
		Towards dawn on February 9, elements of the 22nd Brigade were being overrun, cut off and/or surrounded, and the Australian 2/18th Battalion had lost more than 50% of its personnnel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fall_of_Singapore

	American-British-Dutch-Australian Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, code name ABDACOM, was a short-lived, supreme command for all Allied forces in South East Asia, in early 1942, during the Pacific War.
		British military circles as the "South West Pacific Command", although it should not be confused with the later South West Pacific Area command (see below).
		ABDACOM absorbed this British command in its entirety.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ABDA

	Pacific, Java Sea, ABDA, Exeter, Houston, Perth, De Ruyter, Electra, Encounter, Jupiter, HMS, HMAS
		Allied Command - Early in the month, British Gen Wavell is appointed to command ABDA (American, British, Dutch, Australian) forces responsible for holding Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
		BDA's main naval force is commanded by the Dutch Adm Doorman and consists of a mixed squadron of cruisers and destroyers for the defence of Java:
		The Australians are reinforcing Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and New Zealanders landing in Fiji.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRNPacific.htm

	Major Campaigns in World War 2
		However, British, Dutch, and Australian officers at the various garrisons or islands retained their commands and there was little operational unity.
		British Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse commanded its air components, and American Admiral Thomas C. Hart headed the combined navies.
		A British division and an Indian brigade joined the garrison on Malaya in January, with a British armored brigade scheduled to augment the same command the following month.
	www.world-war-2-history.com /campaigns-page/28/4

	Remembering 1942
		A signal sent to the Prime Minister of Australia from American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) advising of the decision to surrender to the Japanese on Singapore Island.
		Writing in Changi in 1945, he surveys the span of history that brought the British and Japanese empires into collision in south-east Asia in 1941 and which resulted in the fall of the supposedly 'impregnable' fortress regarded as the heart of the defence of the European colonies in Asia.
		ABDACOM, commanded by General Sir Archibald Wavell, was established on 15 January 1942 to co-ordinate military resistance to Japan's advance in south-east Asia.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/singapore/documents.htm

	Chronology 1942
		The U.S. and British governments approved the appointment of General Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of the Chinese armies in Burma and to serve as the chief of staff in that theater of the war.
		U.S., British, and Allied forces, commanded by General Dwight Eisenhower, landed at several cities in Morocco and Algeria to gain control of North Africa from the Vichy French.
		Representatives from 21 American republics met in Rio de Janeiro for an Inter-American Conference to unite the American republics in coordinate policies in defense of the Western Hemisphere.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1942.htm

	Cruel Sea
		Fighting under the short-lived ABDA (American, British, Dutch, Australian) Command, the Allied forces were quickly defeated.
		Originally designated "Australian Minesweepers", these smallest of Australia’s warships performed wide-ranging service, including sea rescue, convoy escort, and supply and evacuation, in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the South-West Pacific, and in Australian waters.
		When it became clear they would not be rescued, the captain and 21 other men (two of whom died) made for Australian waters in the motor boat, rowing much of the way because the engine was damaged.
	www.awm.gov.au /cruelsea/background.htm

	chr42.txt
		Command of naval forces is reallocated: Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, Sea Frontiers, and Special Task Forces are place directly under Commander in Chief United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations; Naval Local Defense Forces, Naval Transportation Service, Special Duty Ships, and Naval District Craft are made responsible to Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
		Commander Eastern Sea Frontier is given operational control of certain Army Air Force units for antisubmarine patrol duty in the Atlantic.
		Commander of All Forces Aruba and Curacao, Netherlands West Indies, is established (Rear Adm. J.
	www.bibl.u-szeged.hu /bibl/mil/ww2/kron/chr42.txt

	Java Naval Battles
		The Allied command, named ABDA for its American, British, Dutch, and Australian components, was by definition a polyglot force which suffered from all the normal disadvantages of differences in languages and lack of common training.
		The campaign against Java and the Dutch East Indies in early 1942 demonstrated to the Allies, if any confirmation were still needed, that Pearl Harbor and the destruction of Force Z were anything but flukes.
		By contrast, the Japanese forces ABDA would face were finely honed and supported by vastly superior airpower.
	www.combinedfleet.com /java.htm

	Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
		Wavell was replaced as Commander of British forces in the Middle East by Claude Auchinleck in July 1941.
		Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ( May 5, 1883 - May 24, 1950) was a British General and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during World War II.
		By February 1941, the British appeared to be on the verge of overrunning the last Italian forces in Libya, which would have ended Axis control in all of Africa.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Archibald_Percival_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell

	1942
		Churchill and Roosevelt announce the unified ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in the SouthWest Pacific, under Wavell.
		British forces continue their retreat in central Malaya.
		British forces begin their first land counter-offensive against the Japanese in Arakan, Western Burma.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1942asia.asp

	CommUnity of Minds : Working Together
		To effect this rescue by ourselves would mean that each American man, woman, and child would have to banish poverty for 10 other people, people of strikingly different cultures, ideals, and ways of looking at things-all this in a world of diminishing resources.
		The main problem is the idea that the American economy, and the easy-motoring lifestyle that holds it hostage, will now depend on a 42-inch wide oil pipe running through nations fraught with Muslim-Christian conflict on top of post-Soviet gangster politics.
		This article is based on a presidential address presented before the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Utah State University, Logan, 25 June 1968.
	solutions.synearth.net

	mh 9.0
		In 1942 the Dutch felt that the ABDA's (American, British, Dutch, and Australian) primary goal should be the defense of
		The ABDA Defense Command was formed by the United States ( America), the British, Dutch, and
		What American general was ordered out of the Philippines in March 1942 to take command of the defense of Australia?
	roymillernjrotc.com /mh9_0.htm

	Learning Chinese with Sinostudy - Sinostudy Chinese language schools in Kunming and Dali
		Initially SEAC commanded: Eastern Fleet with HQ in Ceylon Eleventh Army Group with HQ in New Delhi (all British land forces in command) Indian Ocean Air HQ with HQ in New Delhi China Burma India Theater (CBI), (American forces in theatre) with HQ in New Delhi.
		After transferring the forces in Burma to the India Command, on February 25, 1942 Wavell resigned as commander of the ABDA and resumed his position of CinC of the Army of India.
		During late 1944, as more British aircraft carriers came into the area a series of strikes were flown against oil targets in Sumatra to prepare British carriers for the upcoming operations in the Pacific.
	www.dalilanguagecollege.org /chinese-34/chinesischlernen26

	Fall of Java: Blackburn VC
		The Allied force, under the control of the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, were unable to successfully defend Java and the island soon fell to the Japanese.
		Blackburn was promoted to Brigadier and placed in command of 'Blackforce', the assorted group of over 3000 Australian troops from various units.
		The 3000-strong 'Blackforce' was forced to surrender on 10 March after just 10 days of fighting, when the Dutch commander on the island formally capitulated.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/blackburn.html

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		In the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942 three American cruisers Astoria, Quincy, and Vincennes as well as the Australian cruiser Canberra were lost in a Japanese night attack.
		Her equipment and design philosophy date from the war and as such she represents the many classes of American cruisers that fought in the Pacific.
		In repeated actions, during the early part of the war, American cruisers had found it almost impossible to hit fast Japanese ships in night actions.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/desmoines.htm

	English language - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, American English, Australian English, American and British English differences, ...
		Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom ( British English) and the United States of America ( American English).
		In certain older texts (typically in British English), the use of ligatures is common in words such as archæology, œsophagus, and encyclopædia.
		Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslân), in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
	www.thebestlinks.com /English_language.html

	british army drum corp
		all the British Regts of this Division of the Army are to...
		This summer, they're being given outdoors by red coats and Rangers, American Indian warriors and frontier wives, accompanied by the roar of cannon and the rattle of muskets.
		Silver was with the British Army liberating Belgium in September...
	www.drumsearch.net /drums/british-army-drum-corp.html

	Articles - South West Pacific Area
		Japanese advance through the Dutch East Indies effectively divided the "ABDA Area" in two, and in late February 1942, ABDA was wound up at the recommendation of its commander, the British General
		Australian Army CinC, General Thomas Blamey, was appointed Commander, Alllied Land Forces.
		However the CinCs of the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy were sidelined from 1942 as their subordinates were put under the operational control of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and U.S. Seventh Fleet.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/South_West_Pacific_Theatre

	1942
		The Allies in the south-west Pacific set up a combined command ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) under the command of General Sir Archibald Wavell.
		The Japanese begun their campaign in the Dutch East Indies by attacking the islands of Tarakan and Manado.
		There was a day's delay in leaving from British ports due to bad weather.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /1942.htm

	GOPUSA - World War II Remembered
		The desperate Allies convened in Washington for the Arcadia Conference and hammered out an agreement to establish a unified central command called ABDACOM (American, British, Dutch and Australian Command).
		The central commander was British General Sir Archibald Wavell, with Naval forces headed by Admiral Thomas C. Hart of the U.S. Navy, ground forces led by Dutch officer Lt. Gen.
		Heinter Poorten and air forces commanded by British Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard E.C. Pierse.
	www.gopusa.com /ww2/2002/ww2_0111p.shtml

	World War II Naval glossary and Terminology
		- Acronym for the British Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ; the name given to a device housed under the hull of an anti-submarine vessel and used in detecting the presence of submerged submarines.
		- An officer who is eligible for command at sea.
		- Prospective Commanding Officer making a refresher patrol prior to taking command of his own submarine.
	www.battlebelow.com /glossary.htm

	NARA IWG Declassified Documents: Record Group 226
		The records contain a small set of British decodes (in translation) of SD messages sent in code by wireless telegraphy from Rome to Berlin (and vice versa) during the late summer and fall of 1943.
		Still other British records contain summaries of interrogations of captured SS and police officers that had served in Nazi-occupied countries.
		Independent American Military Mission (to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia)
	www.archives.gov /iwg/declassified_records/rg_226_oss/rg_226_contents.html

	Imperial Submarines
		LtCdr Hasegawa Shun is the I-60's Commanding Officer.
		In 1940, he is reassigned as the Commanding Officer of the I-58.
		LtCdr Sano becomes the Commanding Officer of the I-70 and is lost on 10 December 1941 off Hawaii.
	www.combinedfleet.com /I-60.htm

	HMS Jupiter (F85) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) cruiser force during the Battle of the Java Sea and sank off the north
		HMS Jupiter, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Norman V. Thew, RN, struck a mine as she steamed with the
		Java coast in the Java Sea on 28 February 1942.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Jupiter_%28F85%29

	Moving Image Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives
		The lecture, illustrated with slides, is a biography of the British oceanographer Sir John Murray.
		Australian termite mounds and gala cockatoos are shown.
		This film was produced by the SeaLab III Command Information Bureau, LCDR John C. Dewey, USN Officer in Charge.
	scilib.ucsd.edu /sio/archives/guides/film.html

	Military Abbreviations and Terminology
		The Commander in Chief of the Netherlands East Indies Naval Forces
		Kilo Time which equals Eastern Australian Standard Time which is equal to GMT plus 10 hrs
		Western Australian Time, 8 hrs ahead of GMT
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/ozatwar/abbreviations.htm

	Commands - Iraq/India/FE_P
		RAF Units reverted to command of AHQ Burma, 1 Jun 1945.
		Formed 16 Nov 1943 as South East Asia Air Command to control all Allied air operations in the South East Asia region.
		OC, Far East Command was also OC RAF Base Singapore.
	www.rafweb.org /Cmd_O3.htm

	Glossary of Abbreviations
		Commander in Chief, U. Army Forces in the Pacific
		Day when general mobilization of forces should begin
	www.army.mil /CMH/books/wwii/WCP/glossabb.htm

	JAVA SEA 1942
		PERTH left Batavia on the 24th for Surabaya to join the combined American-British-Dutch -Australian fleet ( ABDA) under the command of a Dutch Admiral.
		Just after 11pm the Dutch cruisers JAVA and De RUYTER were hit by torpedos.
		The ships had not exercised together before and communications and signalling between ships was very awkward.
	www.spruso.com /1javasea.htm

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