observation post

noun

, Military.

a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.

observation post

military a position from which observations can be made or from which fire can be directed OP

Go through the Rue d'Estaires, in which there is a large and very high armoured shelter that served as an observation-post.

Then he crept back to his observation post overlooking the study.

Finally we reached the observation-post, carefully screened by an artificial bower of pine boughs.

The Falcon, steaming valiantly to her observation post near the buoy, aided him considerably.

When she went on out of sight in brushwood, he turned back toward the mountain on which Vale had occupied an observation post.

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