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 ...

In Texas, 76 men have been awarded the Medal of Honor for their courage above and beyond the call of duty since the inception of the medal. Perhaps the most recognizable of those figures from World ...

During a World War II battle in Holtzwihr, France, a wounded US soldier climbed into a burning tank, took a spot behind a .50-caliber machine gun and fired until the enemy was vanquished. At the age ...

When "The End" flashed on the screen at the conclusion of the film, the audience broke out in applause. The 75 or so patrons in the Texan Theater had just watched their hero, Audie Murphy, the most ...

Audie Murphy was an American actor known for his Western films. However, his initial claim to fame came from being the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. He was born in 1925 in a ...

“You lead from the front,” is the motto for the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club, and the Fort Knox MEDDAC’s two newest members of the club do just that. The Sergeant Audie Murphy Club is a private organization ...

EXCLUSIVE: Arthur E. Friedman and Steven Jay Rubin are developing a limited series that will explore the life of actor, Congressional Medal of Honor winner and World War II hero Audie Murphy. The ...

Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II, later ended a long and undistinguished film career with a cameo role in a B western that, lacking postproduction financing, was never released ...

Jeffrey Speicher is a Senior Features Writer and List Writer for Collider. He is a screenwriter for film and television, with a passion for science fiction and psychological drama. He lives in Dallas, ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (July 23, 2020) -- Three 40th Military Police Battalion (Detention) soldiers — Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Wilson, 291st Military Police Company; Staff Sgt. Alejandro Amaya, 526th ...