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Operation Starvation
Part of the Pacific War

B-29 dropping sea mines over Japanese home waters
DateApril 1945
Location
Japanese territorial waters
Belligerents
Operation Starvation United States Operation Starvation Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Chester Nimitz Koshirō Oikawa
Casualties and losses
15 aircraft lost[1][page needed] 670 ships sunk or damaged, totaling 1,250,000+ tons

Operation Starvation was a naval mining operation conducted in World War II by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) to disrupt Japanese shipping.

  1. ^ Mason, Capt (USN) Gerald A. (February 2002). "Operation Starvation" (PDF). Air War College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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