Date
Last Update
Future Plans
March 9th, 2001
The new, renovated website: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 is officially open ! It contains nearly 150 pages of info, photos and maps plus a new message forum !
March 18th, 2001

Corrected some minor mistakes. New additional info added:

   Added names of two new contributors

   Added an appendix: The British Tank Unit in NEI

   Added a map: The Naval Engagements in NEI 1941-1942

   New (temporary) message board opened !

   Java Campaign: the Dutch attack at Soebang

   KNIL Armoured Units in NEI: comment by T. Basarabowicz

   Vickers Carden Loyd Light Tanks in NEI by Jacques Jost


 
March 25th, 2001

Corrected some mistakes. New additional info added:

   Updated British North Borneo Invasion 1941-1942  !

   Corrected mistakes in the Japanese SNLFs in NEI

   Added a new name in the Credits section

   Corrected mistakes in New Guinea section: Manokwari

   Added titles of four new books in the Books section

   Look for the last four books mentioned on the list.



  Chronology: DEI 1941-1942

  Allied Merchant Ship Losses


April 14th, 2001

   New additional info added:

   Chronology DEI 1941-1942: December 1941  !

   Alvis Straussler Armoured Cars in NEI by Jacques Jost  

   Allied Merchant Ship Losses: NEI 1941-1942  

   The NEI website became member of several  
   webrings and received its first internet award!  

   Veterans: Story of KNIL Sergeant Jan Klinkhamer  

   The USS Houston's Corner by Val Roberts-Poss  

   The USS Houston (CA-30) Assoc. Announcement Board

   Added titles of ten new books in the Books section

   Look for the last ten books mentioned on the list.


 
April 26th, 2001

   New additional info added:

   Japan. Shipping Losses in NEI: added few new ships  

   Dutch Warship Losses: added few new ships  

   Four new books have been added !  

   Corrected several other mistakes.  



  Right now I have several exams  
  at the university, which will keep  
  me busy at least until July.  


August 4th, 2001

   Website has been re-renovated.

   Some unnecessary graphics have been removed.

   New info and photos added in some sections:

   - Java Campaign 1942 (NIROM employees)  

   - Menado 1942 (two photos)  

   - The Submarine War in DEI (some new photos)  

   - Borneo 1941-1942 (Tambelan Islands)  

   - Biographies (Tsukahara and Glassford)  

   The Landing at Miri, Seria and North Borneo, 1941  !

   The capture of Balikpapan, January 1942  !

   Sorong, Dutch New Guinea, December 1941  

   The Use of Armoured Vehicles on Borneo, 1941-1942  !

   The Pacific War: The Untold Stories  

   · Japan's need for oil and the Embargo (1940-1941)  

   · The Japanese landing at Kota Bahru, December 7th 1941  

   · Who sank IJN destroyer Shinonome, December 1941  

   · Japanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific Islands   

   Special Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 Bibliography  

   Dutch Maritime Disasters in the DEI (1941-1942)  

   Allied Merchant Ship Losses  Heavily Updated!!! 

   Japanese Merchant Ship Losses  Heavily Updated!! 

   Section about Slovenia + Credits & Veterans  

   Searching for your lost relatives? NEW INPUT!  

   Webrings & Awards  

   Added new quiz!  

   Added new opinion poll!  

   New links added! (16)  

   New books added! (15)   

   Corrected several other mistakes.  



  Future Plans, autumn 2001  

January 2nd, 2002

   The story of Cpt. G.F. Stephan, Tarakan 1941  by Bea Stephan

   An account of a Japanese airman during the attack on USS oiler
   Pecos in the Java Sea 1942  by Yoshio Umetani

   New books added! (5)   

   Search for lost relatives? Update (3) / Removed (2)  

   Biographies: Rear-Admiral Pieter Koenraad  

   Books Sale (two books)  

   Added an appendix to Felix Bakker's interview  

   New look of some pages, including Java Campaign section  


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




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