Word: counterattacks
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After launching more counterattacks, the British announced capture of 600 Germans and 40 cannon-some of the guns 25-pounders which the Germans had captured from them. Between the lines of counterattack, Rommel's five divisions of armor and infantry contracted into a solid, sinister oval, pointed at the British center. If that oval should crunch through, the El Alamein defense line that Auchinleck hoped to organize would be lost...
...shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
...Never? The argument for some Allied counterattack in Europe this year was simply that the risks of doing nothing outweighed the grave risks of doing something. Another Dunkirk? Russia's defeat would be immeasurably worse. Shipping short? With a German fleet in being already poised on the profile of Europe, it might be shorter yet, another year. Could Britain afford to weaken its home defenses for continental adventure? Britain could not afford to lose the war this year, as it might be lost, if Russia fell...
Farther south the German pockets held. So did the Russian spearheads, thrust deep into the German lines. Near Kalinin, northwest of Moscow, the Russians announced that they had finally beaten off a fierce five-day counterattack by crack German troops, had killed 2,400, knocked out 25 tanks...
MacArthur in Australia meant that the U.S. had chosen its spot to concentrate against the Jap (see p. 18). To the limits of its manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...