1946 in the Strategic Bombing Survey that it would have been more efficient to combine the United States' effective 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. This would have starved Japan, forcing an earlier end to the war. See also Air raids on Japan References External links Mines Away!, by Major John S. Chilstrom, USAF, 1992 (PDF) (via archive.org) Operation Starvation, by Captain Gerald A. Mason, USN, 2002 (via archive.org) Starvation April 1945 events 1945 in Japan Naval mines United States Army Air Forces Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the United States