Operation Starvation was an aerial mining operation conducted by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) in WWII to disrupt shipping around the Japanese home islands. This mining proved to be the most efficient means of destroying Japanese shipping during the war. In terms of damage per unit of cost, it surpassed the USAAF strategic bombing … Continue reading Operation Starvation 1945
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Soviet Invasion of Manchuria 1945
The Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation and sometimes, mainly in the West, as Operation August Storm was the last major land battle of WWII. The Soviets also made the last amphibious landings of the war when they liberated South Sakhalin Island and … Continue reading Soviet Invasion of Manchuria 1945
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