Word: counterattacking
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Zhukov acquitted himself well, wearing down the Germans as he retreated until winter and reinforcements enabled him to counterattack and drive the enemy back. A poor mixer socially, Zhukov is about 46, bursting with energy, a strict disciplinarian and a firm believer in the importance of a high degree of troop mechanization backed by well-integrated communications, the latter a traditional Russian weakness...
After the opening round the only question was how quick and how powerful the Jap counterattack would be. One naval attempt to relieve the Jap defenders had already been beaten off at the very outset of the U.S. offensive in a bloody seafight on the night of August 8-9. But that time the Japs had sent a boy to do a man's work, and they would not make that mistake again...
...counterattack came fast on the heels of the Navy's announcement that the first phase of the battle for the Solomons, had been successfully completed. Down from the North, probably from Japan's great naval base on Truk Island (see map on opposite page), swept a great Japanese armada of battleships and carriers, cruisers and transports...
...thing the defenders could be glad of was that the counterattack did not come even sooner than it did. By the time it came, the U.S. was in full possession of the excellent harbor at Tulagi. The Marines had the Jap's chief airdrome on Guadalcanal Island. They had driven the Japs from subsidiary airdromes and land bases on the others. Army bombers were already based on the captured airdromes with Naval and Marine planes. Island airports were "unsinkable carriers" and they gave the Americans a great advantage in the air-an advantage which became all the greater after...
...early in this second phase of the Battle for the Solomons for anyone to tell how well the U.S. forces were doing. But the Navy did say that the Army and Navy units backing up the U.S. Marines in the Solomons had been expecting the Jap counterattack. Americans who read the news could only hope that the commanders who foresaw the attack had also been able to bring up enough ships and planes to beat it off. The Japs could ill afford another reverse at sea like the Battle of Midway. And the Americans in their turn could ill afford...