Word: counterattacking
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...week long, the whereabouts of the bulk of the U.S. Eighth Army, along the Seoul-Taejon axis, was obscured by censorship. For all that news readers in the U.S. knew to the contrary, the Eighth might have been retreating pell- mell toward Taejon. This week news of an allied counterattack in the Osan sector made it clear that the Army was no longer in retreat...
...might be cut off, especially since U.N. forces in the central mountains were bravely and skillfully holding the Reds back from mountain passes that meant access to the plains north of Pusan. Below Wonju, the U.S. and Division, aided by French and Dutch battalions, held on. In the first counterattack since the fall of Seoul, they fought back briefly into the town, withdrew under small-arms fire...
...fighting farther north, found themselves cut off by an enemy roadblock. U.S. units broke up the roadblock, and the South Koreans got through to the Allied lines. Wonju was then attacked on three sides by the determined North Koreans, and seemed about to fall when an Allied counterattack saved it temporarily. Twenty-four hours later, the U.N. forces abandoned the town...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, sent out from Paris a month ago to put backbone into the crumbling French forces in Indo-China, last week threw 12,000 of his soldiers into a counterattack against the Reds. He carefully pointed out that it was not the big offensive he hoped to launch, but only an operation de degagement to relieve pressure on the northeastern flank of the French-held Red River delta. Communist probing attacks have penetrated perilously close to Hanoi, threatened to cut the city off from the supply port of Haiphong...
...years. I've also lost my assault platoon commander. We're just about to go in and get out the rest." Then the colonel had some cheese & crackers and a mug of tea, swung his carbine over his shoulder and marched off to join his riflemen. The counterattack came off successfully, and a few hours later, the British too started their pullback through Seoul and out across the Han to the south...