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Tokio Express was a container ship, built and registered in Hamburg in 1973 for Hapag-Lloyd. [1] In 1984 she was renamed Scandutch Edo before being acquired by Pol Gulf International in 1993 and restored to her original name. [1] In 1997, she was acquired by Westwind International and in 1999, by Falani, before being broken up for scrap in 2000 ...
Tokyo Express Slot Solomon Islands Campaign 9°00′S 159°45′E / 9.000°S 159.750°E / -9.000; 159 The Tokyo Express was the name given by Allied forces to the use of Imperial Japanese Navy ships at night to deliver personnel, supplies, and equipment to Japanese forces operating in and around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands ...
Tokyo Express is a solitaire game in which the player controls American forces off Guadalcanal, while the Japanese convoys, made up of a varying number of ships, act via a predetermined set of rules that use an element of randomness. [2] The game also has rules for two players.
Raizō Tanaka (田中 頼三, Tanaka Raizō, 27 April 1892 – 9 July 1969) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during most of World War II.A specialist in the heavy torpedoes that were carried by all the destroyers and cruisers of the IJN, Tanaka mainly commanded destroyer squadrons, with a cruiser or two attached, and he was the primary leader of the "Tokyo Express ...
In late October through the end of November, Murasame made an additional nine "Tokyo Express" runs. On 25 October 1942 she assisted in rescuing the crew of the cruiser Japanese cruiser Yura , heavily damaged by aircraft attacks, and the next day took part in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands as an aircraft carrier escort under Admiral Takeo ...
From August through November, Shirayuki was used for numerous "Tokyo Express" high speed transport missions in the Solomon Islands. On 12 October, she rescued the survivors of her sister ship Murakumo, which had been torpedoed. On 14–15 November, Shirayuki was involved in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. She was initially attached to ...
She was assigned to numerous "Tokyo Express" transport missions to various locations in the Solomon Islands in October and November. [11] [page needed] Ayanami's final mission, on November 14–15, 1942, was that of the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where she was conducting transport runs. [10]
The ship departed Yokosuka on August 20 escorting convoys via Sasebo to Saipan, Truk and Rabaul. From September through January 1944, the destroyer made numerous “Tokyo Express” runs to evacuate troops from Kolombangara and Vella Lavella and to land troops at Buka, Bougainville and various areas in New Guinea.