The first attack was 60 miles due south of Guadalcanal, off Rennell Island.

第一次袭击的位置距伦内尔岛60英里，在瓜达康纳尔岛正南方。

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For Americans, it starts with Pearl Harbour and features the Normandy beaches and Guadalcanal.

对于美国人，珍珠港则是起点，重头戏在诺曼底海滩和瓜岛上演。

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The capital of the Solomon Islands, on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal. Population, ', 25.

所罗门群岛的首都，位于瓜达尔卡纳尔西北海岸。人口'，25。

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Guadalcanal's beaches were wide and flat.

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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."

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In Honiara, the chief town in Guadalcanal, and the capital of the Solomons, the situation is dangerously different.

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After Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii in December 1941, ferocious fighting on Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) and Bougainville (PNG) brought Americans in large numbers to the islands.

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It has been trying to bring peace to the Solomon Islands, another former British territory, where ethnic groups from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal are in dispute, mainly over land.

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