Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have studied with great interest the Winthrop plan of interglobal strategy (TIME, Jan. 8), and would like to advance the Simpson theory of counterattack...
From the Ardennes, for example, comes a correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...
Somewhere in France, after an evacuation-hospital outfit was forced to fall back before the fury of the German counterattack, Captain Jean Trucky of the Army Nurse Corps wrote...
There were other Nazi diversionary attacks on the western front last week. In The Netherlands, German forces crossed the Maas River at two points, established one bridgehead north of Venlo (later wiped out by British counterattack), another near Geertruidenberg. The Germans claimed they had recaptured a town between the Waal and the Lek rivers northeast of Nijmegen. These northern sectors would probably now be flaring with all-out activity if Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive had kept on rolling beyond the Meuse...
...Before. Still Kenney's air forces needed more fields from which to fly off these great strikes and the still greater strikes which would be needed when the battle of Luzon was fully joined. And it was essential that existing fields on Mindoro be fully protected against Jap counterattack, whether by land, sea or air. So convoys were formed up at Leyte and dispatched through the Mindanao Sea, with air cover provided by accompanying escort carriers...