Doorman, Karel (Willem Frederik Marie)

Doorman, Karel (Willem Frederik Marie)

▪ Dutch admiral
born April 23, 1889, Utrecht, Neth.
died February 27, 1942, Java Sea

      Dutch rear admiral who commanded a combined American, British, Dutch, and Australian naval force against a Japanese invasion fleet in the Java Sea during World War II. Intended to halt the Japanese naval invasion of the Netherlands East Indies, the Battle of the Java Sea ended in disaster for the Allied fleet, and Doorman himself perished.

      A navy officer since 1910, Doorman served first in the Netherlands East Indies; during and after World War I, he helped develop the Dutch naval air force. He returned to the East Indies in 1937 as commander of the naval air force, and in 1940 he became commander of the entire Dutch fleet in the East Indies. In February 1942 he was appointed tactical commander of a combined “strike force” that was ordered to stop an expected Japanese invasion fleet from landing on Java. Doorman's force, consisting of five cruisers and nine destroyers, intercepted a comparably sized Japanese fleet escorting a number of transport ships in the Java Sea on February 27. In the ensuing engagement and its aftermath, all the Allied cruisers, including Doorman's flagship, De Ruyter, were sunk by torpedoes and shell fire, as were a number of destroyers. Japanese losses were negligible, and the invasion force landed on Java on February 28. Before he went down with his ship, Doorman is said to have transmitted a message, “Ik val aan, volgt mij” (“I attack, follow me,” sometimes given as “All ships follow me”), that served as a rallying cry for the Dutch during the remainder of World War II. Doorman himself was honoured after the war with a number of aircraft carriers commissioned into Dutch service under his name. In the 1990s the Royal Netherlands Navy commissioned several Karel Doorman-class multi-role frigates.

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