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 taken at the battle of the bridge on the night of september 15th so they flew on up the career of and found a group of enemy destroyers and cruisers and went in on this attack and, you know, the flak that would be sent up by these ships against the attacking planes coming low on the water was like a ball of fire bert earnest made through and torpedoed one of those ships and was credited for it by other pilots on the mission with him and when he came back to him, larsen said you had over to general bamberger of'