Word: counterattacks
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...story widely reprinted in the U.S., the London Daily Mail's Noel Monks quoted a U.S. infantry officer who had just survived a counterattack by German tanks: "My men are getting cut up for want of a few more American shells...
...Jerry realized that we had established a bridgehead, he opened fire from either flank with small arms and shelled us from the woods a couple of hundred yards ahead. The Scotties hurried the prisoners to the canal, and made them paddle themselves across while they prepared for the counterattack and the push forward...
...Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still counterattack with great force and frequency...
...this time, the enemy was maneuvered out of position. He sent some 3,000 reinforcements south to counterattack near Colmar, thus let down his right guard. Jake Devers let go a stiff punch. On back trails through the Saverne Gap he sent Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc's* French armored division driving toward Strasbourg. The Germans, apparently expecting that any advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German...
...their winning drive, the men of the 32nd pushed 1,000 yards south of Limon, took the enemy by surprise and forced the crossing of the Leyte River, seizing a bridge on the road. But the Japanese were not panicked. The Imperial 26th Division struck back in a vicious counterattack, U.S. troops halted the attack, but their own push was slowed to a walk...