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What tactic was used in an attempt to cut off supply lines to japanese forces in World war 2?
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A submarine blockade, using US submarines to sink all merchant ships going to or from Japan. Japan, like England, is an island nation and totally dependent on imports to feed its people, for fuel which is the lifeblood of a modern military, and for raw materials for making steel and all the equipment a modern military requires. Thus, Japan's situation was identical to England's, and the tactic used of a submarine blockade was identical to the tactic employed by the Germans against England. After the war US Admiral Charles Lockwood, who was head of the submarines of the US Pacific Fleet, was a hero, and Admiral Doenitz, the brilliant head of the German U-boats of the Kreigsmarine, was tried and convicted as a war criminal and sentenced to twenty years, which is the difference between winning and losing. (Doenitz was freed after about seven years, largely through the intervention of Allied naval officers, who understood better than anyone the hypocrisy of his imprisonment, while men who did the same in Allied service were lauded as heroes.) US submarine sailors made up about 1% of the US Navy, but sank 55% of all Japanese ships sunk in the war.
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