Still, the celebratory gunfire that punctures the sultry night air sets nerves on edge, serving more as a reminder that fighting continues than as reassurance of rebel control.

尽管如此，这些庆祝的枪声刺穿了闷热的夜空，使人心神不宁，其更具提醒战斗仍在持续的作用，而不是确保反对派的控制。

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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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