It took nearly 75 years, but World War II veteran Clarence Smoyer, 95, finally received the Bronze Star Medal on Wednesday for his heroic actions that helped destroy a German tank and take the crucial ...

March 1945. In the ruined streets of Cologne, with the cathedral towering in the background, a brand-new American Pershing tank rolled into combat for the first time—and straight into the crosshairs ...

The most common American armored vehicle during World War II was the M4 Sherman. It was a good tank with decent armor and firepower capable of facing contemporary tanks like the German Panzer III and ...

Clarence Smoyer, 95, of Allentown, Pa., was a 19-year-old tank gunner on one of the few American Pershing tanks to make it into the European Theater during World War II. His tank crew was like family, ...

It’s been almost three-quarters of a century since the epic tank battle on the streets of a German city, one that was caught on film and seen around the world. The one that earned Clarence Smoyer the ...

In the closing chapters of World War II, two tanks faced off that would come to define postwar armored doctrine—the American M26 Pershing and the Soviet T-34-85. Though they rarely clashed directly, ...

The American Heritage Museum, a museum that explores America’s wars from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War on Terror, is sponsoring a fundraising sweepstakes benefitting the museum. Icons of ...