Bomb spray obscures the British cruiser HMS <i>Exeter</i> as <i>Exeter</i> and the Australian cruiser, HMAS <i>Hobart</i>, manoeuvered during a Japanese air attack in the Java Sea on 15 February 1942. Her "A" turret can be just seen through the spray. <i>Exeter</i> survived this attack to be later sunk in the Java Sea on 1 March 1942 by a torpedo from the Japanese destroyer <i>Inazuma</i>. HMS <i>Encounter</i> and USS <i>Pope</i> were with the <i>Exeter</i>, and all three ships sunk off the southern coast of Borneo.
Australian armed forces
1942-02-15
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