![]() ![]() Schaefer and Smoyer shoot each other for a few seconds. At the same time, the car is being shot by a German tank whose gunner is named Gustav Schaefer. Smoyer, whose tank crew is instrumental to the Battle of Cologne, recounts his step-by-step moves in the battle, particularly, shooting a car which unbeknown to him is carrying civilians. Smoyer and his tank crew lead the American invasion of Nazi Germany. The book honors an unsung hero, Clarence Smoyer, who despite his hatred for violence, becomes the gunner of one of the first Pershing tanks in the European Theatre. Gustav Schaefer, German Panther tank radioman.Buck Marsh, Infantryman attached to the 3rd Armored Division.Clarence Smoyer, American tank gunner.The book reached number 3 on The New York Times Best Seller list on February 27, 2019. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II is a book about Clarence Smoyer, written by military history author Adam Makos, and published by Ballantine Books in 2019. ![]()
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