query: conflict oliver gordon
supports: The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, and including the "Four-Power Treaty" and the "Nine-power Treaty" was a treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction. It was negotiated at the Washington Naval Conference, held in Washington, D.C., from November 1921 to February 1922, and it was signed by the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy. It limited the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers by the signatories. The numbers of other categories of warships, including cruisers, destroyers and submarines, were not limited by the treaty, but those ships were limited to 10,000 tons displacement. Captain Oliver Loudon Gordon MVO RN ( 26 Jan 1896 -- 30 Jan 1973 ) was in command of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter from 11 March 1941 until she was sunk in the Second Battle of the Java Sea on 1 March 1942 . He later wrote of his experiences both in command of the Exeter and as a Prisoner of War in Japan in the book Fight It Out , published in 1957 . The Battle of the Java Sea was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Second Battle of the Java Sea was the last naval action of the Netherlands East Indies campaign, of 194142. It occurred on 1 March 1942, two days after the first Battle of the Java Sea. It saw the end of the last Allied warships operating in the waters around Java, allowing Japanese forces to complete their conquest of the Netherlands East Indies unhindered. The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) and displacing approximately 10,000 tons. While the general mission of the heavy cruiser, to act as a fast scout for a battle fleet and protect and hunt down commerce, was largely unchanged from the days of sail, its design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
candidates: battle of the java sea world war i world war ii
answer: world war ii