Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farther south the German pockets held. So did the Russian spearheads, thrust deep into the German lines. Near Kalinin, northwest of Moscow, the Russians announced that they had finally beaten off a fierce five-day counterattack by crack German troops, had killed 2,400, knocked out 25 tanks...
MacArthur in Australia meant that the U.S. had chosen its spot to concentrate against the Jap (see p. 18). To the limits of its manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...
...Whom Betrayed? With the voice of one still addressing the Chamber of Deputies, Edouard Daladier continued the counterattack. He appeared, "not as a man accused, but as a man already condemned-but we shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed." This was a threat which Daladier followed by quoting German speeches to prove that the Axis demanded the trial for propaganda purposes. Disturbed, the court threatened to hold further sessions in camera, next day adjourned for the weekend...
...brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were seeking entrenched positions was evidence that General MacArthur still had the temerity and strength to counterattack...
...comparative quiet, a warning voice was heard from Cairo. Able War Correspondent Alan Moorhead cabled to the London Express six cogent reasons why the Axis counterattack had succeeded, why the previous British thrust had stalled. They were...