Operation Starvation
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Operation Starvation was a naval mining operation conducted in World War II by the United States Army Air Forces to disrupt Japanese shipping.
B-29 dropping sea mines on a training mission in the Marianas
No.1-class auxiliary patrol boats played an active part in the post-war minesweeping effort
Air raids on Japan
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Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacifi
Operation Starvation
…merchant shipping and begin a more extensive aerial mining campaign earlier in the war. This would have starved Japan, forcing an earlier end to the war. Air raids on Japan Blockade of Germany (World War II…
B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping incendiary bombs on Yokohama in May 1945
An air-raid shelter being built in Japan, September 1940
A B-25 Mitchell taking off from USS Hornet on 18 April 1942
Locations of B-29 bomber bases in China and the main targets they attacked in East Asia during Operation Matterhorn