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Polluted Water. Last week General LeMay also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Cigars & Bombs | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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