Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi defense seemed feeble. Not until 19 hours after the first U.S. crossings did the Germans counterattack anywhere. Then they put on six attacks against the Ninth, of which the heaviest-a thrust by 30 or 40 tanks supported by self-propelled guns-was beaten off at Boslar. The German prisoners were a mixture: good soldiers in their 205, boys of 15 and 16, railroad battalions, Volksstürmer, air force ground personnel. On the whole, they were far from first-rate troops...
...before Rundstedt's counterattack in the Ardennes, Walton left the First Army to head for Christmas at home, and "it seemed queer to find myself leaving the front actually alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton...
...wondered what had happened to the Germans. Here & there they stabbed at the Red forces, everywhere they fought desperately to hold, but they had not struck out in a full-scale counterattack as they had done four historic times before to check Russian offensives. Surrounded in cities behind the Russian lines were an estimated 650,000 Germans. Perhaps the long drain on manpower was at last beginning to tell. The 50-day agony of Budapest, one of the surrounded strong points, came to an end. The guns fell silent and out of the rubble crawled the garrison, 110,000 dazed...
...tides of Marshal Georgy Zhukov's First White Russian Army, aimed at Berlin. Zhukov's technique was based on three waves of attack: 1) the tanks and enough men and gasoline trucks to keep them going; 2) mobile infantry, to hold the sides of the wedge against counterattack; 3) massed infantry to do the bloody, unsung job of mopping up the enemy...
...line-straightening operation, to bring the British up to the Roer, in line with the U.S. Ninth and First Army positions. Yet Dempsey's white-painted tanks and white-clad infantry advanced seven miles in three days, swept up a dozen villages, beat down with flamethrowers a counterattack by Nazi paratroops...