A shot fired, a World War II soldier’s remorse

Clarence Smoyer, now 94, was a gunner with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division who’d come ashore in Normandy three weeks after D-Day, criss-crossed France and Belgium, and in March of 1945 fought to capture the German city of Cologne. There, during a …

June 6, 2025
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