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

...Cape Endaiadere, at Gona, at Buna Mission, on the flanks of the Buna airstrip, on the track from Soputa to Cape Sanananda, everywhere the enemy has picked his own positions. He has established concrete gun-pits and dug grenade-proof, mortar-proof nests beneath the roots of the giant jungle trees. He has put keeneyed snipers in hundreds of treetops. He has mown down the grass and jungles to give lanes of sweeping fire to his guns. From such positions companies can hold up battalions, and battalions can resist divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR IN THE PACIFIC: War in the Papuan Jungles | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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