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Japanese Type 93, 24” Diameter Torpedo, ca. 1942-1945. On exhibit outside the main Navy/munitions building complex in Washington, D.C. during World War II. This torpedo was recovered from a reef off Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. (NH 94125)

Nov. 28, 2022

Daisy Chains and Torpedoes at Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942

Fatigue, dehydration, and starvation plagued thousands of Imperial Japanese ground troops scattered across Guadalcanal in November 1942. Recent attempts to resupply these forces via “the Tokyo Express”—the employment of Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) destroyers to deliver supplies and equipment from Rabaul to Guadalcanal—were unsuccessful as American