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Word: barentsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ARCTIC: Raid on Spitsbergen | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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