Destry Rides Again is one of the finest westerns of James Stewart’s career, but its remake (simply titled Destry) is surprisingly an underrated gem — starring a perfectly cast Audie Murphy. From ...
While he racked up more medals than any other soldier in World War II, Audie Murphy wore this olive drab wool Eisenhower jacket, size 36. Kelly Marshall Every story about Audie Murphy is a story about ...
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 ...
Not long after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, a then-16-year-old Audie Murphy of Kingston, Texas (near Celeste) had his older sister help him falsify documentation so he ...
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 ...