They rushed to the harbor and cheered as the bursting shells lighted the dark sky.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

And they could hear the sounds of shots and exploding shells.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Huge amounts of shells and gunpowder were exploded.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Officers responded by firing tear gas shells and using their bamboo sticks to repel demonstrators.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28