Palembang (Sumatra)
Palembang is a city in southern Sumatra whose oil refineries and strategic airfields made it a major target during the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in February 1942.
The invasion of the Dutch East Indies
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. This book, vol. 3 of the series, describes in depth the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. (copyright: the Corts Foundation)