WORLD WAR II1939-1945

• North Sea/Baltic Mining Campaign

• German Mining Effort Off of US Ports

• Operation Starvation

  • 683 Japanese Ships Sunk
  • Isolated Japan From Resupply
  • 12,000 Mines Laid

• Airborne/Submarine Mine Laying

• Defensive Fields (example: mines laid north of Key West)

• Advent of Multiple Influence Mines

• Development of Mine Threat Self Protective Measures

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