[snippy_about_it]

Veterans for Constitution Restoration is a non-profit, non-partisan educational and grassroots activist organization.

---

Actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families.

Thanks to quietolong for providing this link.

---

Iraq Homecoming Tips

~ Thanks to our Veterans still serving, at home and abroad. ~ Freepmail to Ragtime Cowgirl | 2/09/04 | FRiend in the USAF

---

UPDATED THROUGH APRIL 2004



The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

Click on Hagar for
"The FReeper Foxhole Compiled List of Daily Threads"

[SAMWolf]

One of the most effective operations conducted by B-29s was the systematic mining of Japan's waterways.

Progressing through five phases and involving 1,528 sorties 13,102 mines were laid by B-29 bombers with the loss of just 15 aircraft. March 27, 1945 marked the beginning of the campaign. The 313th Bomber Wing undertook these missions, usually at night with radar, a parachute slowing the fall of each mine.

The mines rested on the sea bottom and weighed either 1,000 or 2,000 pounds, the heavier type being effective in 25 fathoms of water, the lighter one was good up to 10 fathoms.

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

I never realized the B-29s were utilized to such a degree for mining. After we established bases bases at Iwo and Saipan, the B-29s had begun firebombing one Japenese city after another.

This phase of the pacific war has always been facinating. What if Operations "Downfall" and "Olympic" had been utilized and we didn't use the atomic bomb. It's idel speculation but interesting to ponder.