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Word: earthworks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow elimination. U.S. troops had come to grips with the enemy in his ultimate warrens, and he was not an enemy who surrendered. Sloughing through knee-deep mud, the Americans were within capturing distance of both airfield and harbor, were cracking open the bristling, fire-spitting concrete and earthwork mounds in which the Japs have taken final refuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Superior Force | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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