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Operation Starvation
| Operation Starvation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Pacific War | |||||
 B-29 dropping sea mines over Japanese home waters | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 United States |
 Empire of Japan | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Chester Nimitz | Koshirō Oikawa | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 15 aircraft lost[1] | 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.
- ^ Mason, Capt (USN) Gerald A. (February 2002). "Operation Starvation" (PDF). Air War College. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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