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Hi Revcollector. Perhaps some mail from the previous years that was lying around in people's houses and in offices and such was destroyed during the Japanese take over, but their takeover of the Dutch East Indieas, what is now Indonesia, was fairly swift and without much fighting in many places since the Japanese forces were overwhelming. The allied fleets were pretty much crushed in the first and second battles of the Java Sea and at the Sunda Strait and the Japanese ground units pretty much steamrolled the Dutch ground forces in the few places there was resistance. Then when the war came to a close there were no allied invasions or battles there - the Japanese forces there simply surrendered. It was a very different story than what went on in the Philippines.