Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Counterattack. The reaction came quickly. Though Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, who was speaking on the same bill with Matthews, solemnly assured reporters that "Secretary Matthews speaks as the official representative of President Truman," it was soon clear that he did not. Next morning, there were hurried consultations at the White House between Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Louis Johnson. State was worried; Matthews' ill-considered remarks would be picked up by Moscow to prove to the world what the Communists had said all along: Americans were warmongers itching to start World War III. With Harry Truman's approval...
...week's end, they had put three regiments-a full division-across at Changnyong, roadblocked a secondary supply route and threatened the rail-and-road line from Taegu to Pusan. This week the brave, battered 24th Division, which had been fighting steadily for six weeks, moved to the counterattack behind hard-hitting Pershing tanks. The division commander, Major General John H. Church,* said he intended to "drive the enemy back across the river or destroy him on this side." But it was not certain that John Church and his men had enough tomatoes for that...
While the Reds massed for their all-out drive, U.S. marines and infantry last week launched a counterattack to try and keep the enemy off balance in the south. Meanwhile, there would probably be further but limited U.N. withdrawals on the north and northwest fronts, which are defended only by lightly armed South Korean troops...
...Mansei!" Almost on the heels of the first wave of Reds came a U.S. counterattack. Spearheaded by five tanks and two M-8 reconnaissance cars, truckloads of G.I.s from the 19th Infantry Regiment roared through the pass and down into the valley below. Heavy Communist fire damaged the two recon cars and three tanks. The G.I.s, supported by covering fire from the pass, spilled out of their trucks, began fighting a day-long melee in the valley and on the crests of the surrounding hills...
...Avranches, and it was the XX Corps and the rest of the Third Army that poured through the gap. The XX Corps' first major job was to clear the north bank of the Loire, but some of Walker's units helped to beat back the enemy counterattack at Mortain and pincer the German Seventh Army at Falaise...