Excerpt from “Under the Java Moon: A Novel of World War II ... When the Japanese Imperial army invaded Indonesia (then called the Dutch East Indies) in early 1942, over 100,000 Dutch men ...

Rucksack made for Dutch East Indies Army. Japanese issued ... He was a radar technician in the RAF when he was captured in Java in February 1942. He spent 3 and a half years as a POW.

Workshop at a craft school in Tasikmalaya, West Java. Instruction in Dutch technical knowledge ... intended in any sense to diminish the multifaceted realities of the Dutch East Indies at the time. In ...