In the final weeks of World War II, the only Super Pershing sent to Europe finally entered combat. Fitted with improvised ...

A U.S. Army World War II Sherman tank, similar to one being made available to drive as part of a unique initiative, sits on the hillside outside in Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) Christmas has come early ...

DENVER (AP) — On a late February day in 1945, on a hilltop near the town of Stolberg, Germany, a nervous, curly-haired Army corporal prepared to put on an exhibition of artillery marksmanship for a ...

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, ...

BOSTON (AP) — For heroic World War II tank gunner Clarence Smoyer, the inside of a tank was his home and the crew was his family. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the ...

Few civilians understand what it feels like to climb into a military tank and squeeze into the cockpit. Even fewer have had the opportunity to grab ahold of the controls and actually drive one. The ...

Clarence Smoyer was feted in Colorado Springs on Monday as one of the last heroes left from World War II. But the 3rd Armored Division tank gunner came to town to honor the photographer who made him a ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BROOMFIELD, Colo. — A local author has ...