Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, the Senate President accused Collins of accepting legal fees of $65,000 from the Boston Housing Authority under curious circumstances. Yes, replied Collins, he had done legal work for the Authority, but had never received the sum mentioned. In a counterattack, he said Powers had pocketed $140,000 tax-free from the proceeeds of a testimonial dinner held last March...
...recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait. Said Admiral Clifton Sprague later: "The failure of the enemy ... to completely wipe out this task unit can be attributed to our successful smoke screen, our torpedo counterattack . . . and the definite partiality of Almighty...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...counterattack starts, as a divisional reflex, before the first question can be answered by the Far East command. But even before King Company can reach the first Chinese defenses, the rusty U.S. chain of command has snapped. The assault group is caught in the full glare of an Allied searchlight battery that has confused Pork Chop with "some other hill," and before the lights go out, a dozen or more Americans lie dead or wounded. Shocked and bewildered, the green troops nevertheless hold firm, then make a wild charge that carries the Communist outworks...
Higher up, they are caught in the open as the Chinese counterattack in waves, and when morning comes, Lieut. Joseph G. demons Jr. (Gregory Peck), in charge of King Company, subtracts about 60 casualties from his original force of 135 fighting men, and grimly thanks God that 62 men of Love Company will be coming up any minute. But when Love Company does arrive, some hours late, it brings only ten men; the rest are dead, wounded or missing...