![]() "I knew I was watching history unfolding. This unit saw a lot of action and was one of the quietest in the business." "Reporters couldn't wire back and say what they had seen or where the Spearhead Division was located. "Often war reporters didn't report on them because (the tanks) were operating in secrecy behind enemy lines and in radio silence," Makos said in a recent phone interview. But unlike other units such as General George Patton's 3rd Army or the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions, the Spearhead Division didn't get much ink. The 3rd Armored Division was known as the Spearhead Division because it usually led the way into battles. It's the next book in the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight book club, which is open to anyone who wants to read and discuss the book on March 9 at the War Memorial Center in Milwaukee. Smoyer's riveting story is told in "Spearhead: The World War II Odyssey of an American Tank Gunner" published last month. ![]() Author Adam Makos learned by chance of a man who was one of the best marksmen of America's World War II tank crews in Europe and one day several years ago he knocked on Clarence Smoyer's door in Pennsylvania.
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