Word: counterattacks
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...Offensives. Pursuing the same strategy that carried them from Stalingrad to Kharkov last winter, the Russians had waited until the German drive on Kursk spent itself, then had launched a mighty counterattack. This quickly developed into a two-pronged offensive-actually two offensives - along a 300-mile front. One prong jabbed hard at the heels of the Germans routed at Orel, liberated hundreds of Russian villages and advanced toward Bryansk. Farther to the north, other Russian forces stabbed southwest from Vyazma toward the main Nazi base at Smolensk...
...Germans fought fanatically, but the Russians pressed on. In the first three days they advanced 25 miles toward Orel from three directions, liberating no towns and villages. They routed five German divisions; five others "suffered a heavy defeat." By last week's end, twelve days after the counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under...
...world's major battlefronts, the Allies moved forward this week. The Russian line crackled along its 1,500 miles and the Red Army's counterattack brought it almost to the gates of Orel. In the Pacific the Americans and Australians, crept nearer Munda, nearer Salamaua. Over German Europe, U.S. and British bombers continued their destructive missions. TIME will report these actions fully next week...
...Japanese admitted the loss of Attu this week. Tokyo reported that the Jap forces perished in a desperate counterattack. The U.S. Navy, more reserved, believed there were still last-ditch snipers around Chichagof Harbor. This belief was borne out by an account of the fighting sent from U.S. Aleutian Headquarters by TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod late last week...
...Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during a savage enemy counterattack, General Teddy Jr. had proceeded to an advance observation post under intense shelling, strafing and dive-bombing, had stayed there until the tide was turned...