Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortly after noon we could see our tanks edging forward through the canefields only 500 yards away. They were firing thousands of rounds from their machine guns, occasionally blasting away with their 753. This was the beginning of our two-day recovery from the enemy's last crazy counterattack...
...bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
...Pledge. It was no easy promise to keep. German strength in the area turned out to be even heavier than expected. The airborne troops dropped in at 1 a.m. and grabbed the vital bridges, but then they had to dig in and stand off one violent counterattack after another...
...highway town of Chiusi, with its ancient Etruscan tombs, was less fortunate. First captured by the British Eighth Army, it was lost again to a German counterattack within 72 hours, remained the center of fighting for days and was heavily battered...