Osaka, as a result of these fire raids, as well as the strangulation on their food and raw materials caused by aerial mining, ceased to function as a viable city by the end of July 1945.
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The area around the church was heavily damaged during the March 1942 air-raid on the city and an aerial mine destroyed historic stained glass and work by Curt Stoermer inside the church but left the exterior unaffected.
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Beside the bomb load a LT F5 Torpedo could be carried in its long bomb bay, as well as three aerial mines ( the E-1 did not carry the mine load of the E-2 ).
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After the war, the commander of Japan's anti-shipping submarine effort with land-and carrier-based air power to strike harder against merchant shipping and begin a more extensive aerial mining campaign earlier in the war.
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Aerial mining supplemented a tight Allied submarine blockade of the home islands, drastically reducing Japan's ability to supply its overseas forces to the point that postwar analysis concluded that it could have defeated Japan on its own had it begun earlier.
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The incendiary campaign ( which destroyed 40 % of the targeted cities ), the aerial mining campaign ( which starved Japan of essential food imports ) and the two atomic attacks have all been argued as major factors in the surrender of Japan.
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;Havoc-Pandora : Twenty Havocs were converted into " intruder " aircraft, carrying the Long Aerial Mine ( LAM ), an explosive charge trailed on a long cable in the path of enemy aircraft in the hope of scoring a hit.
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Up until World War II the swimming pool was used as an ice rink on cold winter days . The baths suffered severe damage during the war, primarily from bombs aimed at the nearby railway line an aerial mine caused the diving tower to collapse.
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In September that year, the squadron undertook a proving exercise over Halifax Bay in Far North Queensland, when four of its Hornets refuelled in flight on the round trip from Williamtown by a Boeing 707 tanker became the first jet aircraft in Australia to drop aerial mines.
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"' Operation Pocket Money "'was the title of a U . S . Navy Task Force 77 aerial mining campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) from 9 May 1972 ( Vietnamese time ), during the Vietnam War.
