Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the long feverish days and nights while Montgomery's heroic troops, sleepless, unrelieved, kept pressing against the enemy's deep positions, no counterattack made a single dent in their line. Montgomery likes to say: "Every man in the Army must have the light of battle in his eye." The Eighth Army had the light in its eyes...
...Japanese behave when they have lost face-as they did when the Marines took their Solomon bases-was told last week when correspondents described the powerful Jap counterattack made on Aug. 24. It was a naval engagement on a scale only slightly smaller than the Battle of Midway...
Zhukov acquitted himself well, wearing down the Germans as he retreated until winter and reinforcements enabled him to counterattack and drive the enemy back. A poor mixer socially, Zhukov is about 46, bursting with energy, a strict disciplinarian and a firm believer in the importance of a high degree of troop mechanization backed by well-integrated communications, the latter a traditional Russian weakness...
...thing the defenders could be glad of was that the counterattack did not come even sooner than it did. By the time it came, the U.S. was in full possession of the excellent harbor at Tulagi. The Marines had the Jap's chief airdrome on Guadalcanal Island. They had driven the Japs from subsidiary airdromes and land bases on the others. Army bombers were already based on the captured airdromes with Naval and Marine planes. Island airports were "unsinkable carriers" and they gave the Americans a great advantage in the air-an advantage which became all the greater after...
...early in this second phase of the Battle for the Solomons for anyone to tell how well the U.S. forces were doing. But the Navy did say that the Army and Navy units backing up the U.S. Marines in the Solomons had been expecting the Jap counterattack. Americans who read the news could only hope that the commanders who foresaw the attack had also been able to bring up enough ships and planes to beat it off. The Japs could ill afford another reverse at sea like the Battle of Midway. And the Americans in their turn could ill afford...