Word: helfrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Hart, knowing his fleet was adequate only for hit-&-run tactics, had left them to stand and fight because of the understandable desire of stubborn Dutch Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich to keep the Japs out of the last bit of Netherlands Indies soil...
Admiral Hart's successor was the little Dutch Navy's Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich (TIME, March 9). This week Admiral Helfrich was also probably far from Indies waters. Perhaps to Australia, perhaps to Ceylon (see p. 19], he had withdrawn what the overwhelming Japanese Fleet had left of his battered squadrons. Dutchmen in the Indies and the U.S., Allied naval authorities in Washington and London, agreed that Admiral Helfrich had been no sacrificial goat when his command was shifted. To all effects, he had no fleet left to command...
...Last Shore. Java's long, open northern shore along the Java Sea has no "logical points of attack." It is all vulnerable, replete with accessible ports and easy landing places. Admiral Helfrich's task was now to defend that shore by keeping the Japs away from...
...impossible task. Admiral Helfrich had to be prepared for invasion convoys on his left (Sumatra), at his center (Borneo), from his right (Bali). Exactly what he had long dreaded, what he had long planned to prevent, had now come to pass: the Japs were too many and too close...
...Japs landed-at Rembang, only 109 miles in Surabaya's rear and 70 miles from the town where Conrad Helfrich was born. Admiral Helfrich's naval war was not over; there would be still more Jap convoys to harry and ravage. But the land battle for Java had begun. Soldiers and airmen would now do the fighting for the sailor's home...