Word: counterattacks
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Fighting was like that last week on Okinawa. In one Jap counterattack, a U.S. company was reduced from 240 effectives to two, and three company commanders were killed by artillery. In another Jap assault, which lasted from dusk until the next afternoon, U.S. cooks, bakers and clerks were shoved into the fighting line...
...center the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions pressed closer to Shuri. On the east coast the 96th Army Division captured Conical Hill dominating the Yonabaru airstrip; then doughboys swept ahead to take the airfield itself. Again & again the Japanese came out of mud-filled foxholes and caves to counterattack...
...First Army, fighting towards Cologne last week, came what one correspondent called "a minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...
...Nazi defense seemed feeble. Not until 19 hours after the first U.S. crossings did the Germans counterattack anywhere. Then they put on six attacks against the Ninth, of which the heaviest-a thrust by 30 or 40 tanks supported by self-propelled guns-was beaten off at Boslar. The German prisoners were a mixture: good soldiers in their 205, boys of 15 and 16, railroad battalions, Volksstürmer, air force ground personnel. On the whole, they were far from first-rate troops...
...wondered what had happened to the Germans. Here & there they stabbed at the Red forces, everywhere they fought desperately to hold, but they had not struck out in a full-scale counterattack as they had done four historic times before to check Russian offensives. Surrounded in cities behind the Russian lines were an estimated 650,000 Germans. Perhaps the long drain on manpower was at last beginning to tell. The 50-day agony of Budapest, one of the surrounded strong points, came to an end. The guns fell silent and out of the rubble crawled the garrison, 110,000 dazed...