About that time, I heard our tank coming up. I was just a little impatient and I got out and I think the German tank … saw me, because he started to turn his turret around. I sat there and it seemed like forever and a day for them to get started, but of course they had to get all of the mathematics and everything set just exactly right so they knew exactly what they were going to do at the very second they stopped that tank. Just 21 years old at the time, Smoyer would fire the three shots immortalized on the critical 48 seconds of film Bates shot that day.Īfter his brief scouting missing with Earley, Bates took his small 16mm camera to the mezzanine level of a building on a corner that would give him a clear shot of the action to come. The events of March 6 are painstakingly documented in Adam Makos’ remarkable 2019 book, Spearhead, which follows the tank gunner Clarence Smoyer through the war.
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