The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Don L. Newman (ASN: 20725607), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 35th Infantry Division, in action near ****, Germany, on 2 March 1945. After Sergeant Newman had directed accurate rifle grenade fire against an enemy pillbox and silenced the weapon, elements of his company, believing that no further danger existed, advanced. Seeing one of the enemy crew members, who had been though dead, moved toward the automatic weapon in the machine gun emplacement, Sergeant Newman charged across the open ground through heavy fire, jumped into the machine gun nest, clubbed the enemy soldier with the butt of his rifle, and then turned the weapon upon the Germans, covering the advance of his platoon. His quick thinking, intrepidity, and accurate marksmanship accounted for three enemy dead, an enemy machine gun nest, and permitted the successful completion of his platoon’s mission. His gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.