Word: counterattacking
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...commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
...Pledge. It was no easy promise to keep. German strength in the area turned out to be even heavier than expected. The airborne troops dropped in at 1 a.m. and grabbed the vital bridges, but then they had to dig in and stand off one violent counterattack after another...
...highway town of Chiusi, with its ancient Etruscan tombs, was less fortunate. First captured by the British Eighth Army, it was lost again to a German counterattack within 72 hours, remained the center of fighting for days and was heavily battered...
...Priceless Chance. The Nazis had missed their first chance, to cripple the invading forces by vigorous Luftwaffe blows at sea and on the beaches; they had missed their second, to counterattack strongly while the Allies were still disorganized on and near the beaches. Would they miss their third chance, to strike a decisive, strategic counterblow while the Allied bridgehead remained "only...
Where was the Luftwaffe? One explanation of its infrequent sorties was that Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, bull-necked veteran of Spain's ill-famed Condor Legion, was saving his strength, to use it in close support of Rommel's army when his counterattack finally got under...