Having severely lost the Battle of the Java Sea, the remaining Allied fleet prepared to leave Java behind and sail to ...

As Houstonians pause this weekend to honor those who have faithfully served our country, I hope they will take a measure of pride in what happened 75 years ago on another Memorial Day in this city.

THE Navy has raised concern about the apparent looting of the wreck of the HMAS Perth, which was sunk near Java in 1942 with the loss of 353 lives. Claims that scrap merchants were stripping the HMAS ...

AFTER surviving the Allied defeat at the battle of the Java Sea the day before, on February 28, 1942, Captain Hector “Hec” Waller had orders to retreat — to take the HMAS Perth to safety to Tjilatjap ...

Although I've never been to Perth, Nana Booker, Australia's honorary consul in Houston until her retirement last year, tells me that Australia's west-coast metropolis is similar in several respects to ...