Word: counterattacking
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...Whom Betrayed? With the voice of one still addressing the Chamber of Deputies, Edouard Daladier continued the counterattack. He appeared, "not as a man accused, but as a man already condemned-but we shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed." This was a threat which Daladier followed by quoting German speeches to prove that the Axis demanded the trial for propaganda purposes. Disturbed, the court threatened to hold further sessions in camera, next day adjourned for the weekend...
...brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were seeking entrenched positions was evidence that General MacArthur still had the temerity and strength to counterattack...
...comparative quiet, a warning voice was heard from Cairo. Able War Correspondent Alan Moorhead cabled to the London Express six cogent reasons why the Axis counterattack had succeeded, why the previous British thrust had stalled. They were...
...Enemy snipers in trees and fox holes had stopped counterattack to regain part of position. In hand-to-hand fighting which followed, Lieut. Nininger repeatedly forced his way to and into the hostile position. Though exposed to heavy enemy fire, he continued to attack with rifle and hand grenades and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in fox holes, and enemy snipers...
...second time in a year that Field Marshal Rommel had captured Bengasi, and there was nothing second class about his performance. The sweeping Axis counterattack, which ten days before the British had hopefully called an "armored force reconnaissance," had swept around the base of the Gulf of Sidra, gathering momentum as it went...