Word: counterattacked
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...assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
...reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured 125, and regained control of Kien...
...past Administration had submitted a report (Project Lincoln) which he had not studied in detail. No general conclusions, he said, had been reached on it in the National Security Council, the Cabinet or anywhere else. TIME does not dismiss as "trivial and inconsequential" the problem of defense and counterattack against Russia. But it does not hold that a group of scientists necessarily knows more about air defense than the military, nor does it believe that the U.S. will vanish from the face of the earth in two years unless it adopts Project Lincoln...
...Counterattack Readied. After listening to Van Fleet and Almond, subcommittee members were surer than ever that some types of ammunition had been in chronically short supply in Korea...
From the Pentagon floated rumors that high Army brass was sharpening long knives for a counterattack on Van Fleet. The brass would find that he was well entrenched on Capitol Hill. One Senator wrote to Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens asking that Van Fleet be kept on active duty "because the country needs him." And Styles Bridges was so taken with Van Fleet that he offered him a job as military advisor to his Appropriations committee. Van Fleet promised to think it over...