An Alternate World War for The Netherlands.

I don't know, I was going to decide it when I started writing the North American Chapter but have not gotten around to it yet.

Part IIII: Turning Point of the Pacific War.
“
Afflavit Deus et Dissipantur”
Motto of the Hr.B.Ms. Onderneming, coined after the Battle of Java Sea.

After their victories at Formosa and the Philippines, the Japanese Navy was free to do whatever it wanted, striking wherever they pleased throughout the South Seas. They even launched a raid into the Indian ocean, where they attacked shipping, bombed Nieuw Delphi and damaged the Ceylonese carrier Hr.C.Ms. Stille Oceaan during a brief skirmish. The commerce raider Unebi would stay behind to continue raiding Dutch shipping, gradually becoming so infamous that the Ceylonese Navy put together a strike force dedicated solely to sink her.
The Unebi was not the only ship to become infamous. During the second battle of Brunei, the Yuudachi launched an one-ship attack on the Brazilian fleet, using the cover of night to sink a heavy cruiser and cause general confusion among Allied ranks. After regrouping with other Japanese ships she launched a second charge, this time joined by fellow destroyers Shigure and Harekaze, that sank eight more ships and broke the Allied offensive. Revealing that a third time is not always the charm, her last charge backfired when she was surrounded and eventually sunk by Brazilian destroyers.
Lulled into a false sense of confidence after their easy victory at Borneo, The Imperial Navy sortied to break the back of the Commonwealth Pacific fleet in one last devastating battle. The outcome of such a victory would have been the fall of Borneo and an invasion of Java, but the most ambitious generals did not limit themselves to such possibilities. They dreamt of invasions of both Australia and Ceylon, despite Japan never possessing anywhere near the logistics required for such a feat.

The plan for Operation JZ was to use the Akagi, Kaga, Ise and Hyuuga as a diversion to draw out the Dutch carrier fleet and create an opportunity for the other four fleet carriers to attack them from behind.
The failure of the plan was caused by their sketchy intel, with the IJN thinking that the Commonwealth had only three carriers available, rather than the six they actually had, and not being aware that their naval codes had been cracked. The battle of Java Sea was an ambush, but it was one for the ambusher.
The first clue that the Kido Butai had walked into a trap was when the Hyuuga was torpedoed by the O-57, with the rest of the carrier group suddenly finding themselves surrounded by destroyers previously disguised as islands and under attack by bombers from the Hr.B.Ms. Onderneming and Hr.B.Ms.Vrijheid.
With half his force suddenly being under attack, admiral Yamamoto made the decision to turn around and save the remaining carriers from total destruction. This gave the impression of a general retreat and convinced admiral Doorman that his trap had been discovered.To achieve the most destruction and glory, he ordered the rest of his battle fleet to attack. At top speed, the DC’s two battleships and sixteen cruisers charged right into the Japanese vanguard, consisting of the Ashigara, Nachi, Yukikaze, Tone and Mutsu.
Despite their best effort, the defensive line improvised by the Japanese ships lasted long enough to allow most of the fleet to escape, losing only the Hiryuu to a lucky salvo from the Hr.C.Ms. Jaffna.


Despite their failure to completely destroy the Japanese carrier fleet, they had still won an important victory. It would take two years for Japan to replace its lost carriers and pilots, by which point the Dutch Commonwealth would have built over thirty carriers of its own.
Just as important as depleting the IJN’s numbers was gaining the initiative. A process that would have gone much smoother if the various branches of the Dutch military could ever agree on anything. Instead they had directly competing ideas of how to win the war, with the Army advocating a route that went through French Indochina, China and Korea before ending with an invasion of Japan proper. The Navy and Marines Corps disagreed with that plan both on principle and because it would sideline them for most of the fight. They delivered their own plan, proposing a route that went through the Phillipines and then launching an invasion of Japan, liberating Hainan and Formosa on the way. On paper the Air Force was in favour of both plans but they would be damned if they agreed to the same thing the marines did, and thus threw their support behind the Army.
As a compromise, the minister of war decided to go forward with both plans at the same time, promising that the side that arrived first would get to invade Japan. It was a solution neither the Army nor Navy was in particular favour for but it was one they could both agree with.


With the path cleared, the Dutch Navy sortied for Borneo once again. There they fought and defeated the Japanese task force defending the supply lines from Singapore, isolating the troops fighting on the island.
Catching the IJA with their back against the wall, the Royal Indonesian Army was able to wipe out their enemies to a man. Operation Huzaar marked a turning point in the Asian war. Not only was it the first time that a large scale Japanese offensive had been defeated, it also marked the point where Japan decisively lost the initiative. Despite multiple attempts to regain the initiative, they could only defend against the Dutch onslaught.

Thanks, next update is going to be about the Asian land war and show that on occasion the Dutch are not much better then the Japanese.

Of course they are, there are just the occasional bad guys among them.

It was to fuel patriotic feeling among the People of Indonesia. And they already have several Royal/Imperial X Armies, why should Indonesia be different?

Say Roel, since you are going to appear as an admiral in a future Chapter, what would you like the County-class heavy cruiser that is Your flagship to be named?