PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – One Soldier put “leading from the front” into motion with his recent acceptance into the prestigious Sergeant Audie Murphy Club on Feb. 2. 1st Sgt. Matthew Rouse of ...

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 ...

Audie Murphy was born on this day, June 20, in 1925. There is sometimes confusion over his year of birth — as he falsified a birth certificate to join the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – A Soldier assigned to Fort George G. Meade earned the Sergeant Audie Murphy Award during a ceremony at the post theater May 17, 2022. Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald Krause,780th ...

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 ...

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, ...

Audie Murphy, who is known as the most decorated soldier of WWII, received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in combat. Murphy, however, often spoke about the Unicoi County man who ...

Floyd “Audie” Murphy. They say some people have a smile as bright as the sun; Audie’s brought the light of every star in the universe. He will always be remembered as a forever-loving husband; patient ...

June 20th is Audie Murphy’s birthday. He was born in Texas in 1924. The war-hero and actor developed his fondness for Tucson, while making several movies here. The most decorated combat soldier of ...