Japanese base in Java blasted by Allied task force.

Japanese base in Java blasted by Allied task force. Casting a shadow over the countryside, a column of jet black smoke towers over a blazing oil refinery set afire by bombs unloaded from British and American carrier-based planes during a joint attack on Surabaya, Japanese-held naval base and oil refinery center on the Island of Java. During the raid on the enemy stronghold in the Dutch East Indies, on May 17, 1944, Allied bombers shattered engineering works, destroyed 20 Japanese planes, damaged a floating drydock and crippled a flotilla of enemy transports.