Instead, he found a full Army color guard and ceremony awarding him a Bronze Star, almost 75 years after the battle that made him a hero. Washington, D.C.- When 96-year-old Clarence Smoyer came to Washington on Wednesday, he thought he was heading to the Pentagon to sign copies of "Spearhead," a recent book detailing his exploits as a World War II tank gunner. Signal corps cameraman), Robert Ziller (RAF-cameraman), Manfred Bockhoff (9.Panzerdivision), Gustav Schäfer (Panzerbrigade 106), Günther Müller (360 Volksgrenadier-Division) and many others. Featured eye witnesses: Andy Rooney (correspondent "The Starts&Stripes"), Clarence Smoyer (3rd Armored Division), Francis Wilber (104th Infantry Division), James Bates (U.S. Based on several years of research into the background and contemporary witnesses, this documentary reconstructs the advance of US troops into Cologne and shows crucial moments of the battle for the city in March 5 -7, 1945. However, who the people in those scenes were still remains unknown. The film footage makes the engagement the most famous tank duel in the world. The battle for Cologne ends with a final, dramatic tank duel at the base of the Cathedral. Some of the shots taken by the cameramen of the US military are still perceived in the USA as the most famous scenes of World War II. Dozens of correspondents, photographers, and cameramen have followed the US troops in order to report in detail on the event. The impending battle has dominated the headlines of the world press for days. Nazi propaganda has declared the city to be defended to the last cartridge. Cologne is the largest city that the G.I.s will take during the war. Eight months after D-Day, the US troops are now on the cusp of a long-awaited milestone. Witness the US troops first hand on their advance from the outskirts of the city to the banks of the Rhine and the fascinating research of the Cologne journalist Hermann Rheindorf.ħ0th anniversary of VE-Day - special edition 2015:Ĭologne, Germany, the famous Cathedral city in March 1945. Too rarely do we really take one incident in a long conflict and pick it apart to find the profoundly human stories lost in all the spectacle.
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