Word: counterattacked
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...they are doing and where they are going. They have found that when things go wrong at night, they can go "awfully wrong"-meaning that nocturnal confusion causes unnecessary casualties. Also, if the enemy has succeeded in grabbing a U.N. outpost during the night, it pays the U.N. to counterattack at dawn's early light, so as to give the burrowing Reds little or no time to dig in. And if the enemy can use night harassments to rob U.N. troops of sleep, the U.N. can return the favor by harassing the enemy...
Trumpet Charge. For six hours the French held off the Viet Minh while B-26s from Hanoi strafed the roadside. By that time the northern half of the French column was in position to counterattack. In the jump-off position was the 1st Bataillon de Marche, reckoned the finest Vietnamese unit in the French Union forces, whose tradition it is to charge to the call of a trumpet. Now, as the shrill trumpet echoed over the green jungle, the Vietnamese stormed the small hill where the Viet Minh had dug in. The fourth wave got in among the Reds with...
...brave South Koreans were sometimes too proud for their own good. Once, when they were dislodged from the peak of Sniper, their commander failed to report it for fear of losing face. He intended to counterattack the next day, without air and artillery support, and win the position back. If he had tried it, his force would have been slaughtered. But higher echelons discovered the plan in time and gave the ROKs the support they needed...
...broadcast in which Richard Nixon detailed Adlai Stevenson's part as a character witness in the first Alger Hiss trial, and concluded: "His actions, his statements, his record disqualify him from leading . . . the fight against Communism at home and abroad . . ." Last week the Democrats launched a defense and counterattack...
...badly, and the 7th's doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when day came, the U.N. troops won back most...