Private First Class Irving Bromberg saw a huge puff of smoke erupt from the German tank's cannon muzzle as it headed straight for his M4 Sherman tank. The round streaked past and missed.
Bromberg sat next to the driver in the bow gunner's seat manning a .30-caliber machine gun. His turret gunner fired the tank's 75mm cannon, also missing, but the American cannon had an advantage: an automatic breech-loader. The spent shell quickly popped out of the breech and the loader shoved in another round. The gunner fired a second round before the German could reload. The second round blasted the enemy tank.
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