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 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 ...