But the forts were so strong that the shells caused little damage.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The Spanish fired first. The shells missed.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

There will also be a huge fireworks show with more than two thousand five hundred shells exploding over the National Mall.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

There,Darwin noted that levels of rock extending high above the sea contained the fossil remains of shells.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

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

VOA: special.2009.08.13

More than four-thousand shells had been fired during the thirty-three hours of fighting.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

On Wednesday,artillery shells hit the only remaining hospital in the area of fighting.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

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

She studied the sea shells she found.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Shells set the trees on fire.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

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