Bombardments naval

Keywords Law of naval warfare Warships Submarines Unmanned maritime systems Submarine communications cables Hospital ships Merchant vessels Methods and means of naval warfare Naval mines Torpedoes Blockade Exclusion zones Naval bombardment Protected persons... 

Hague Convention IX (1907) Convention (IX) concerning bombardment by Naval forces in time of war. The Hague. Am J Int Law 2(Suppl) 146-153 (1908)... 

The use of a distinctive symbol to protect cultural property is not new. See Convention No. IX respecting bombardment by naval forces in time of war 1907, The Rules concerning the Control of Wireless Telegraphy in Time of War and Air Warfare. Drafted by a Commission of Jurists at The Hague, December 1922—February 1923, Part II Article 26 and the Treaty of Washington 1935 referred to above. But neither symbols attracted as widespread acceptance as the blue and white shield. 

Despite these preparations in the European theater the amphibious employment of the 4.2-inch mortar occurred only in the Pacific. Colonel Unmacht first suggested the technique to Navy officers in July 1943 at the Makua, Oahu, demonstrations. The Navy liked the idea and played around with it for almost a year. The advantage of the mortar l at plan was that it provided assault troops with heavy effective fire during that period in the landings when they were most vulnerable —the time between the lifting of the naval bombardment and the establishment of supporting weapons on shore. 

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