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"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
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Scope and content: Footage includes officers and men of the 745th Tank Battalion in camp, scenes of the English and French countryside, wreckage of German convoys, German prisoners, river crossings, tanks cutting through hedgerows in Normandy, and scenes in Aachen, Germany.