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Conrad Crane. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Press, 1993.
E. Bartlett Kerr. Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Force’s incendiary campaign against Japan, 1944-45. New York: D.I. Fine, 1991.
Michael Sherry. The Rise of American Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987.
Ronald Schaffer. Wings of Judgement: American Bombing in World War II. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
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John Chilstrom. 1993. Mines Away! The Significance of US Army Air Forces Minelaying in World War II, Maxwell Air Force Base, Air University. Part of this thesis discusses “Operation Starvation” – the aerial mining campaign against the Shimonoseki Strait and Japanese ports.
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