10 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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We sank 240 Jap ships & lost 100 ourselves?

D.E.Is. surrendered. (("At 09:00 on March 8 the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces, Ter Poorten, announced the surrender of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in Java." See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire/Japanese_Invasion#Dutch_Surrender))

1/2lb tob. $20

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