Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, earning every major U.S. military honor by age 20. After the war, he became a Hollywood actor and used his fame to ...
War movies have always tapped into our morbid curiosity, perhaps largely because war, to most of the Westernized world, has become somewhat of an alien concept. There is a detachment, a disconnect, ...
By the end of the war, Audie Murphy had spent 400 days on the front lines and had been wounded three times. He had earned 33 U.S. medals, including the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, ...