Surely we can learn – and he can learn – from the crisis Australia faced in World War II ... Dutch East Indies, Portuguese Timor and a scattering of strategic islands in the western Pacific.

For many, the words 'Changi' and 'Thai-Burma Railway' are enough to conjure images of Japanese barbarity towards Australian and British prisoners in World War II. But thousands of captured ...

The Dutch Navy had ships in the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese invaded in 1941. The Japanese Army was ferocious in its attacks, as part of its broader plan to colonise most of the Pacific Ocean .

It might jeopardize Japan’s plan to conquer Malaya, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines ... The Special Aircraft Service Forum; World War II Database; Tamiya Corporation ...

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent. Spying for France gave him that chance Shaun Assael In December 1792, a 46-year-old French botanist named ...

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 11 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 25.

Photo: Verzetsmuseum Since 2005 the museum has had a section on the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, which has more recently expanded to include the post-war fight for ...

As the city marked the 80th anniversary of Dutch liberation at the end of World War II in Europe, around 250 to 300 protesters, according to local media estimates, gathered to voice opposition to ...

as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. A spokesperson for the Japan-headquartered U.S. Seventh Fleet, which maintains a forward presence in the Indo-Pacific ...

Backed by the Dutch Republic, the Dutch East India Company ... noting how the VOC distributed a spice from the nutmeg tree cultivated in the East Indies . “It was a kind of compromise solution, ...

Brownfield development: USD136 billion would be invested to upgrade existing airports, creating an additional 680 million passenger capacity and 14 million tonnes of cargo capacity; Greenfield ...