EVERY TEXAN LOVES THE VALOR OF AUDIE MURPHY JULY 2014 Audie Murphy Profile: (Soldier / Actor / World War II Medal of Honor Recipient) He was born in June of 1924 in Kingston Texas. He up in as the man of the family for his siblings and widowed mother and supporting them as a sharecropper family as best he could through diligent work and responsibility. He enlisted in the Army on his 18th birthday in 1942, landed at Casablanca in February of 1943, and spent the next two years fighting his way across North Africa, Italy, France and Germany. He won two dozen military medals for valor, including the Congressional Medal of Honor Famously baby-faced, Audie Murphy was promoted from private to lieutenant during the war, yet was not yet 21 when the war ended. Invited to visit Hollywood in 1945 by James Cagney, he stayed and parlayed his wartime fame into an up-and-down career as a movie actor, songwriter, and businessman. He published his war memoirs, To Hell And Back, in 1949 and played himself in the 1955 movie of the same name. He appeared in more than 40 movies, many of them westerns. He was killed along with five other people in a private plane crash in Virginia in 1971. When asked about war he stated: War is terrible. I am in favor of our having no more wars, but as long as war clouds hover over the earth, I feel we should be prepared for the worst.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:10:39 +0000