Word: counterattacks
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Mortain was a critical spot (see above). There the Germans had thrown four armored divisions into desperate counterattack. The object: to pierce the narrow waist of the U.S. corridor from Normandy, thus split the Allied front. One U.S. division, new to combat when it landed in France, took the brunt of the Panzer blow, recoiled, then stood and slugged...
...East Prussian border, General Chernyakhovsky's armies weathered one fierce counterattack after another, waited for the convulsions to die out. Inside the border, the Germans burned farm buildings-the first humiliating scorching of their own earth in this...
...shortly after noon we could see our tanks edging forward through the canefields only 500 yards away. They were firing thousands of rounds from their machine guns, occasionally blasting away with their 753. This was the beginning of our two-day recovery from the enemy's last crazy counterattack...
...Said Lieut. Joe Grimes, a white Texan: 'I watched those Negro boys carefully. They were under intense mortar and artillery fire as well as rifle and machine-gun fire. They all kept on advancing until the counterattack was stopped...
...bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...