Word: counterattacked
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...apparently believing themselves outnumbered, retreated into the snipers' line of fire, fell like tenpins. The advance machine gun was knocked out by the two men detailed to it. Schwartz and his men cleaned out the village, held it until the Japs collected their wits and began an enveloping counterattack...
Southeast of Stalingrad, Timoshenko's forces were moving up. Under cover of subfreezing nights thousands of Russian soldiers were crossing the icy Volga on ferry boats, fishing boats and rafts, carrying with them the artillery, tanks and weapons they would need for a massive counterattack. Behind the bald, rolling Ergeni Hills south of Stalingrad, hidden by mists, they gathered and waited. In the cold dawn of Nov. 20 they attacked...
News accounts were unable to keep pace with the Anglo-American invasion that took French Morocco and Algeria in 76 hours-and moved into Tunisia in 76 more. An attack and quick counterattack near Bizerte was the first clash of arms...
Through the long feverish days and nights while Montgomery's heroic troops, sleepless, unrelieved, kept pressing against the enemy's deep positions, no counterattack made a single dent in their line. Montgomery likes to say: "Every man in the Army must have the light of battle in his eye." The Eighth Army had the light in its eyes...
...Japanese behave when they have lost face-as they did when the Marines took their Solomon bases-was told last week when correspondents described the powerful Jap counterattack made on Aug. 24. It was a naval engagement on a scale only slightly smaller than the Battle of Midway...