Word: marovovo
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...trapped on Cape Esperance on the northwest tip. For months the Americans had been fighting slowly up along the northern coast from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in "a strong position" near the little Melanesian Mission station of Marovovo on the opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports the Japs attacked off Rennell Island...
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