Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastily, the German Command threw tanks into a counterattack. The Russians were dislodged from a village they had already occupied, and driven back into the forest. But what they were meant to do, they had done; while the German attention was diverted, Russian infantrymen crossed the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead between the areas where the Red Army broke across the river in the last month. On to this foothold poured reinforcements of airborne and parachute troops...
Commanders in the field told Colonel Hamilton that training at home ought to stress night fighting. They said: "We mean to take possession at night. Then, let the enemy counterattack at daylight...
...next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...
Last week the Germans retaliated. In their first effort to regain a lost point on Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania...
Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and protracted battle defeated the powerful Panzer army of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein. It was Rokossovsky who signed the demand for capitulation sent to Paulus, which was rejected and which led to the final destruction of Hitler's Stalingrad army. It was the greatest single victory...