Word: counterattacked
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...inevitable end was in sight unless little Generalissimo Weygand could stage a successful counterattack from the south across the Somme east of Amiens. If Weygand could cut through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been...
...Conquer or Die." While the French fought north of Laon and St. Quentin with herds of tanks and massed 75s (see p. 25) to stem the German swing-the general commanding the French II Army led its tank counterattack in person-history stood still for France and Great Britain. The world's battle was to decide whether Adolf Hitler's apocalypse really showed him the future of Western civilization "for the next 1,000 years." At least 80 German infantry divisions were in it and ten of twelve Nazi mechanized divisions. At least 5,000 planes with crosses...
...With the illustrious Marshal to give advice and confidence, the dynamic Mandel to deal with weakness within, and dictator-wise Edouard Daladier to watch France's interests abroad, Premier Reynaud prepared to concentrate responsibility, rouse the nation from its Maginot psychology, give France decisive leadership for the inevitable counterattack...
...hope and we are waiting for Chiang's Army to counterattack Nanning again, so that we can fight once more in this same spot...
This is a memorable place-the top spot of the circle which the Japanese Army drew around the Army of Chiang Kai-shek which was trying to counterattack Nanning...