Pertempuran Selat Sunda

Pertempuran Selat Sunda merupakan satu pertempuran laut yang berlaku semasa Perang Dunia II. Pada malam 28 Februari, – 1 Mac, 1942, dua buah penjajap, setiap satunya dari Amerika Syarikat USS Houston dan Australia HMAS Perth bertembung dengan pasukan tugas Tentera Laut Imperial Jepun. Selepas pertempuran sengit yang berlangsung selama beberapa jam, kedua-dua kapal Bersekutu karam. Lima buah kapal Jepun juga karam di sebabkan tembakan sendiri, dua darinya kemudian diapungkan semula.

Pertempuran Selat Sunda
Sebahagian daripada Perang Dunia Kedua, Perang Pasifik
Fail:AWM ART24483 HMAS Perth.jpg Lukisan minyak, HMAS Perth berlawan hingga akhirnya, 28 Februari 1942, oleh artis perang rasmi Murray Griffin sekitar 1942-43 di Singapura.
Tarikh 28 Februari – 1 Mac 1942 Lokasi Selat Sunda, Hindia Timur Belanda Keputusan Kemenangan Jepun
Pihak yang terlibat
Australia Amerika Syarikat	Empayar Jepun
Komandan dan pemimpin
Hector Waller  † Albert H. Rooks  †	Kenzaburo Hara Takeo Kurita
Kekuatan
1 penjajap berat 1 penjajap ringan	1 pengangkut ringan 1 pengangkut pesawat laut 5 penjajap 12 kapal pembinasa 58 kapal pengangkut askar
Kerugian dan korban
Kedua-dua penjajap karam 1071 terbunuh 675 diselamatkan	4 kapal pengangkut askar, 1 kapal penyapu ranjau karam (ditembak kawan) 2 kapal pembinasa, 1 penjajap rosak 10 terbunuh, 37 cedera

Rujukan

• D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
• Hornfischer, James D. (2006). Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80390-5.
• Lacroix, Eric (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958 (reissue 2001)). The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942, vol. 3 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0785813047.
• Schultz, Duane (1985). The Last Battle Station: The Story of the USS Houston. St Martins Press. ISBN 0-312-46973-X.
• Skeels, Fred (2008). Java Rabble: A story of a ship, slavery and survival. Victoria Park: Hesperian Press. ISBN 978-0-85905-419-5.
• van Oosten, F. C. (1976). The Battle of the Java Sea (Sea battles in close-up; 15). Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-911-1.
• Spector, Ronald (1985). "The Short, Unhappy Life of ABDACOM". Eagle Against the Sun : The American War With Japan. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-394-74101-3.
• Whiting, Brendan (1995). Ship of Courage: The Epic Story of HMAS Perth and Her Crew. Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited. ISBN 1-86373-653-0.
• Winslow, Walter G. (1984). The Ghost that Died at Sunda Strait. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-218-4.- Firsthand account of the battle by a survivor from USS Houston
• Winslow, Walter G. (1994). The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-928-X.

Pautan luar

• Naval History (no date), "1942 03 01 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Sunda Strait"
• G. Hermon Gill, 1957, Official Histories – Second World War Volume I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942 (1st ed,) Ch. 16 "Defeat in ABDA"
• "US Navy report of the battle from 1943". Dicapai pada 2006-05-17.
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific) - Naval Analysis Division (1946). "Chapter 3: The Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and Southeast Asia". The Campaigns of the Pacific War. United States Government Printing Office. Dicapai pada 2006-11-20.
• L., Klemen, 1999-2000, The Netherlands East Indies 1941-42, "The conquest of Java Island, March 1942" (http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/java.html, the Geocities link can only be added by an established user)