At 3am on January 24th 1942, four American destroyers launched a surprise raid on a Japanese invasion fleet at Balikpapan, in Borneo. For an hour they rampaged across an unsuspecting fleet of transports, winning the US Navy’s first victory in the pacific war.

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Sources:

Marc Lohnstein, The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42
Jeffrey R. Cox, Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Mark Stille, Java Sea 1942: Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies