<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Java_Sea" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of the Java Sea">Battle of the Java Sea</a>, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-British-Dutch-Australian_Command" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American-British-Dutch-Australian Command">Allied</a> strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Sea" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Java Sea">Java Sea</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>.