Word: counterattacked
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...afternoon of March 22 the Germans counterattacked the Eighth Army's positions in the Mareth Line and drove the British infantry back upon the Wadi Zigzau. In order to relieve the situation of this infantry, the British command that evening ordered troops across the wadi to counterattack the German counter-attackers. TIME Correspondent Jack Belden accompanied the troops and cabled this soldier's-eye view...
...armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...Counterattack (adapted from the Russian of Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman by Janet and Philip Stevenson; produced by Lee Sabinson) is a play about Russians and Nazis that could just as well be about cops & robbers. For three acts a Russian corporal and private stand guard -in a claustrophobic cellar whose entrance caves in-over seven disarmed but wily Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded...
Worthless as a picture of war, Counterattack does not quite make the grade as an out-&-out thriller. It has goose-fleshy twists, but some of it is too old-fashioned and most of it is too unreal...
...World War I private whom General John J. Pershing called the war's third ranking hero; in a veterans' hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. Among his decorations were the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Croix de guerre. He was credited with stopping a German counterattack singlehanded in the Argonne. Sent with two other men to enfilade machine-gun nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned to his lines with eleven...