On January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, Second Lieutenant Audie Murphy ordered his remaining men to fall back, then climbed onto a burning M10 tank destroyer and used its .50-caliber machine gun ...
Audie Leon Murphy was born on June 20, 1925, in Kingston, Texas. He was the seventh of twelve children born to Emmett Berry Murphy and Josie Bell Murphy. The family survived by sharecropping — farming ...