BAZOOKA VS TANKS AND
IT WINS A SILVER STAR

IN MID-FEBRUARY. 1945, German tank warfare was at Its height, and the overpowering weight of the great steel Tigers offered a real threat to the allied advance.

It was the tenth day of that month when Pvt. Glen R. Norrell of Stillwater waited with his platoon In the dimness of Bannholr, Woods, just, inside Germany, where he was so soon to earn the Silver Star—and "gallantly give his life for his
country.

Private Norrell's weapon was a bazooka. It looked small beside the two Nazi tanks which suddenly appeared around the edge of the woods and attacked his platoon from the flank, but Norrell knelt under point blank fire from the vicious enemy tank guns and used what he had at hand.

Calmly and accurately, he began firing that bazooka.

He scored three direct hits on one tank—two on the other. His fire forced one tank to retreat from the woods, to a hill down position. Then, while loading for the sixth round, he was badly wounded by shrapnel.

But Private Norrell was not a man to stop with a job unfinished. He rallied all his remaining strength and was attempting to fire one more round when mortally wounded.

The citation accompanying the
posthumous award of a Silver Star for "exceptional bravery” has Just reached his parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Norrell. 506 Monroe. Stillwater. It says of this intrepid Infantryman: "His conspicuous bravery and gallantry under enemy fire, are in. keeping with the highest traditions.”

Private Norrell was a member of the 376th infantry, 94th division.