Smoyer, who lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, expected a taxi to take him from his hotel to the USS Constitution Museum for a book signing Wednesday. Makos started making calls and Smoyer started doing physical therapy, in case it worked out. Over the course of six years working together, Smoyer made off-hand comments to Makos about how he’d like to get aboard his old Sherman tank one last time to refresh his memories. Army’s 3rd Armored Division, nicknamed “The Spearhead Division.” In 1945, he defeated a German Panther tank by a cathedral in Cologne, Germany - a dramatic duel filmed by an Army cameraman that was seen all over the world.Īuthor Adam Makos tells Smoyer’s story in a new book, “Spearhead,” which was released Tuesday. One of the last surviving WWII tank gunners, Smoyer was surprised with a ride through the streets of Boston in a Sherman tank, one of the tanks most widely used by the U.S. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the first time since the war. BOSTON (AP) - For heroic World War II tank gunner Clarence Smoyer, the inside of a tank was his home and the crew was his family.
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