Word: regrouping
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Exercise in Futility. But the Japs had no air cover, no sea support; the Allies had plenty. The attack, dubbed by MacArthur "a hazardous movement of doubtful success," faltered. The enemy paused to regroup, but while he did so, American reinforcements arrived in time to wipe out the Japs on the west side of the Driniumor. Like their comrades on New Britain and Bougainville, who were also cut off, the Japs had no hope of victory or of rescue. Unlike their comrades on Saipan they could still hide out and make the miserable best of the jungle...
Perhaps behind these barriers, manned by limited reinforcements from the north, Field Marshal Kesselring might still regroup his shattered units, turn them back to the fight. His chances were getting slimmer by the hour...
...perfectly plain that General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander was still striving mightily to destroy them. He could be balked only if the Germans could somehow get back to manned and prepared positions where they could stop, regroup and get back into the fight...
...exist today in secret Allied plans, are subject to change with the fortunes of war on the fringe, in Russia, in the air penetration of inner Europe, in the battle of sea supply. All predictions are idle, and they will be even more so as the armies pause to regroup, as commanders pause to reconsider, as the unforeseeable effects of the first blows sink in upon the enemy. All that the public can know is that certain objectives, certain ways of approach, exist...
...wooden ski over the steel halftrack. The Russians had learned how to move mechanized armies through the snow. The Russians' hope, they knew, was to keep moving and to keep the Germans off balance. This they could do-and did impressively well -until they had to pause to regroup their forces, and until they ran ahead of supplies...