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Japanese Navy Shocked By US B-29 Night Mining At Shimonoseki

Japanese Navy Shocked By US B29 Night Mining At Shimonoseki The black water between Honshu and Kyushu tightened into the Kanmon Strait and took another name in a sailor’s mouth. Shimonoseki. The tide ran like a river and the current made a deep hum along the hulls of ships that tried to slip past in darkness. Coal barges stacked three deep. Tankers drawn low by fuel that could no longer be spared. Kaibokan escorts with tired engines. Converted trawlers that wore rifles like borrowed coats. The Inland Sea waited beyond, a vast bowl ringed by Kure and Kobe and Osaka, and everything that still moved in the heart of the empire had to pass through this throat. The night smelled of coal smoke and algae and rust, and of the old oil that never quite leaves a dock. The men aboard an escort vessel named for a small river watched the dark runs and felt the map in their bones, a tight S bend between Moji and Shimonoseki where sandbars shifted and pilings leaned. They knew the strait by sound. They did not know what the sky had become.