This happened so often that American servicemen nicknamed it the "Tokyo Express".

Hell's bells, in Tulagi we didn't keep four aboard, with the Tokyo Express running every night.

These missions were labeled the "Tokyo Express" by Allied forces.

The Japanese used fast ships to make these runs, and this became known as the Tokyo Express.

They defended the waters off Guadalcanal from the Tokyo Express.

Amagiri continued to be used on "Tokyo Express" missions through the end of 1943.

This was the principal port on that island, and it supplied at night using fast destroyers as transports known as the "Tokyo Express".

Tokyo Express, on the other hand, had a well-designed solitaire system.

Patch now realized that the Tokyo Express runs over the last week were evacuation, not reinforcement missions.

They had to resort to the Tokyo Express : overnight delivery of a few hundred troops and supplies by destroyers.