Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howlin' Mad's case was simple: the 27th would not fight, and Ralph Smith would not make them fight (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944). Seven days after the Saipan landing he had ordered the 27th to move up between the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions for the big attack northward along the spine of the island...
Gaps opened between the fast-moving marines and the stalled 27th. The whole attack ground to a halt...
...G.I.s fought gallantly, Howlin' Mad Smith relates. Bodies piled high before their guns. Their ammunition ran out. Then they were overrun, partly because their own 3rd Battalion made no attempt to shift over to help stop the fanatical Japs. The attack was finally halted by Marine artillerymen and a Reserve Army infantry regiment, after U.S. troops had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Smith then yanked the 27th out of the line, never let them do any more fighting in the Marianas...
...coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
...first score for Harvard on a slant from twenty yards out which barely eluded the leaping Yale goalie, Symington. After Potter's score in 13:40 of the first period, the Crimson missed several scoring chances while fullbacks Mike Scully and Rick Drake turned back an occasional Yale attack...