Word: counterblow
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...24th hung on, moved slowly forward, watching for the Jap counterblow. Presumably MacArthur's reserves were ready when it should fall. It was a lot different from the way hopeful U.S. soldiers had imagined it after the U.S. steam roller successes in the first week of the invasion. The enemy intended to dispute possession of Leyte; hard fighting was ahead...
...right swing against Cherbourg. Simultaneously, Montgomery had to win the "Battle of the Build-up." He had to bring in, over the beaches and through emergency landing facilities on the Bay of the Seine, enough men and material to make sure that he could stop the major counterblow by Rommel if & when it came...
...Book. The ist Division had the difficult task of maintaining a solid front with the British army on its flank. By the textbook, this was the most logical place for Rommel's strongest counterblow. Rommel followed the book...
...missed their first chance, to cripple the invading forces by vigorous Luftwaffe blows at sea and on the beaches; they had missed their second, to counterattack strongly while the Allies were still disorganized on and near the beaches. Would they miss their third chance, to strike a decisive, strategic counterblow while the Allied bridgehead remained "only...
...then he went over to the Reds. Always his jobs have been mental jobs-General Staff Operations Chief; Chief of Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, Russia's Staff School; Chief of Staff. He planned the invasion of eastern Poland in 1939; he beat Finland; he timed the great counterblow from Moscow in December. He has found time to write many heavy tomes, the greatest of which are The Cavalry, On the Vistula and the three-volume Brain of the Army...