He scored a direct hit, disabling the tank.
"I hit it in the side or the track," said Smith. "A tank is pretty hard to hit. Sometimes the round would just bounce off it. I could see it face on."
Immediately, 10 German Panzer troops jumped off and charged him.
"I killed four of them with my tommy gun. That scared them off. They were up close - about 10 feet or so."
That is some crazy stuff right there. Fear would have taken me over long before I was 10 geet away from a German Panzer!
I think I am going to watch some Band of Brothers within the next couple of days.
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