Battle of the Java Sea
During the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, "Jintsū" and her destroyer groups (including DesDiv 7's , , and and DesDiv 16's , , and ) along with the cruisers , , and and the destroyer , engaged Dutch Rear Admiral Karel W. F. M. Doorman's Strike Force, with the light cruiser , cruisers , , light cruisers , , destroyers , , , , and old destroyers , , and