Word: counterattacks
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...Your article mentions the fact that a desperate Jap counterattack broke through our greenest regiment. That is true. But the Marine artillery did not stop any Jap counterattack. Our regiment moved up and reestablished a line. While moving up they recaptured two batteries of Marine artillery, lost during the Jap counterattack...
...Counterattack. By this time the Japs were finally goaded to counterattack. So far, not a U.S. ship had been damaged. But as the sun set behind Formosa's jagged peaks, the Jap air force found Mitscher's task groups. The next U.S. communiqué reported the Jap attack beaten off but (perhaps significantly) omitted the familiar reassurance-"no damage to our surface ships...
...island, Ontario troops led the way from Antwerp to the isthmus. They captured part of the town of Woensdrecht; for a time they held the road leading to South Beveland, and they brought the railway under artillery fire. But the Germans, still the masters of the prompt counterattack, struck swiftly with reinforcements from Bergen op Zoom...
...Confused? Almost simultaneously came the counterattack. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, sleepy-looking but shrewd Under Secretary of Commerce, stated that the Department's figures were carefully defined and "reasonably clear and simple." In effect, said Taylor, no one was confusing the figures but the Brookings Institution. Planner Ruml merely looked over his tortoise-shell spectacles, disdainfully, said he "saw no reason" to change his estimates...
...prog ress across a lacework of canals and rivers. Home-front strategists who had talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...