Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glenn Girona is a US Army combat veteran who served as a tanker on the M1 Abrams during the Iraq War. He said all of the tank jobs ...

LAMPASAS — Former U.S. Army tank gunner Keith Callis remembers heading into combat during the 1990-91 Desert Storm campaign to push Iraq out of Kuwait after the late Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded ...

Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, one of its last surviving heroes is gone. Clarence Smoyer, a native of Lehighton who’d been living with his daughter in Allentown, died Friday, ...

The “Hero of Cologne” is going home one last time. Smoyer, who most recently was living with his daughter in Allentown, left Lehighton to join the Army when he was 19 years old. He was a tank gunner ...

The gunner of the Italian B1 Centauro said the tank gun, fired like artillery, had struck the building nearly seven miles ...

FORT STEWART, Ga. – I’m standing inside a heavily armored beast that stampedes through the land on its mechanized tracks. The tank commander sits to my right and directly in front of him is the tank ...

Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 75th Battalion, from Netanya, was killed on October 7 while battling the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, and his body taken captive to Gaza.

A newly-unearthed letter has revealed the courage of a World War One tank gunner during the final days of his life. L/Cpl G S Hopkins was in two tanks which were badly damaged by shells over the space ...

This video tells the true story of an American anti tank gunner who challenged battlefield doctrine during World War II. In September 1944, Corporal Thomas Bennett and his crew faced German Panther ...