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unusual facts about Tokyo Express



Japanese cruiser Naka

For the next several months, Naka was assigned to make troop transport runs around the Marshall Islands and Nauru.


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Don Kurth

During the night Battle of Tassafaronga in November 1942, the New Orleans engaged the famous “Tokyo Express” troop convoy which was supplying troops and supplies to block the United States Marine invasion of Gaudalcanal.

Raizō Tanaka

On 12 December 1942 on another "Tokyo Express" run, Tanaka′s destroyer was hit and sunk by torpedoes fired from a U.S. Navy PT boat near Guadalcanal and Tanaka was wounded.