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"Worth speculates that had the ships been completed, commissioned and deployed to the East Indies by 1942, they could have "transformed the strategic picture" because the Imperial Japanese Navy's cruisers could not match these ships.^[1]"

Though referenced, the sentence does not make much sense to me since in 1942 Netherlands was occcupied by Germany, which was in alliance with Japan since 1940. --Georgius (talk) 14:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Dutch government, headed by Queen Wilhelmina, fled the Netherlands during the German invasion and joined the Allies, putting the Royal Netherlands Navy and the sizable Dutch Merchant fleet at their disposal, as well as other resources. Although the Dutch Armed forces in the Netherlands surrendered on May 15th 1940, this did not include those units overseas, nor even the troops in the province of Zeeland, where troops had joined up with Belgian and French units. During the Battle of the Java Sea, in 1942, the combined Allied force was commanded by Dutch Rear Admiral Doorman. The action was unsuccesful in repelling the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, but had these battlecruisers been present, perhaps they could have made a difference. Considering the strategic importance of the Dutch East Indies as a major source of oil and other resources, this would have been a huge setback for the Japanese war effort. However, all of this is, of course, speculation and battlecruisers never really did well when confronted with battleships, as the Battle of Jutland and the fate of HMS Hood have illustrated. Nevertheless, they would have been hard-pressed -not- to use these units, due to their large calibre weapons being so valuable, despite the disadvantages.

Btw, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV_Ingenieurskantoor_voor_Scheepsbouw. In addition, the book mentioned there, Teitler, Prof. Dr. G De strijd om de slagkruisers 1938–1940 De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1984, deals exclusively with the political and technical issues surrounding these ships and deserves to be mentioned in this article as well.

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 Though referenced, the sentence does not make much sense to me since in 1942 Netherlands was occcupied by Germany, which was in alliance with Japan since 1940.
 --[[User:Georgius|Georgius]] ([[User talk:Georgius|talk]]) 14:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
+*The Dutch government, headed by Queen Wilhelmina, fled the Netherlands during the German invasion and joined the Allies, putting the Royal Netherlands Navy and the sizable Dutch Merchant fleet at their disposal, as well as other resources. Although the Dutch Armed forces in the Netherlands surrendered on May 15th 1940, this did not include those units overseas, nor even the troops in the province of Zeeland, where troops had joined up with Belgian and French units. During the Battle of the Java Sea, in 1942, the combined Allied force was commanded by Dutch Rear Admiral Doorman. The action was unsuccesful in repelling the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, but had these battlecruisers been present, perhaps they could have made a difference. Considering the strategic importance of the Dutch East Indies as a major source of oil and other resources, this would have been a huge setback for the Japanese war effort. However, all of this is, of course, speculation and battlecruisers never really did well when confronted with battleships, as the Battle of Jutland and the fate of HMS Hood have illustrated. Nevertheless, they would have been hard-pressed -not- to use these units, due to their large calibre weapons being so valuable, despite the disadvantages.
+Btw, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV_Ingenieurskantoor_voor_Scheepsbouw. In addition, the book mentioned there, Teitler, Prof. Dr. G De strijd om de slagkruisers 1938–1940 De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1984, deals exclusively with the political and technical issues surrounding these ships and deserves to be mentioned in this article as well.