LTjg Kenneth Kollmyer participated in the Battle of the Java Sea, and killed 28 February 1942, when the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated an allied fleet. At the end of the seven-hour naval battle, five Allied vessels had gone to the bottom, few ships survived the Battle of the Java Sea. The USS Houston (CA-30) was sunk the next day in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942.
