one at guadalcanal and one shortly after they were relieved after their service on guadalcanal but while they were there, they flew almost every day under swede larsson and all kind of weather day and night they enjoyed great success. arthur bamberger had brought him to command the marine air force's on guadalcanal and brigadier general told his fighter pilots your job is to knock down the japanese zeros when they come in. the job of sweet larsen and the torpedo planes as last the dive bombers was to stop the tokyo express, stop the japanese ships reinforcing the men on guadalcanal and that is what swede larsson did. there is swede as commander. that's bert earnest, he won his third navy cross at guadalcanal. he told me a wonderful story about how shortly before one of the missions going up the marine pilots call in the slot having backed up towards bougainville, the navy pilots call it the groove and prior to one mission gwyneth approved h told the pilots general vander eckert said whoever puts the next tepito or the next dive bomb in the ship will get a ceremonial sword that had been t