Over the course of World War II, Murphy witnessed the deaths of hundreds of fellow and enemy soldiers. Murphy was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. He then commandeered the German machine gun and grenades and attacked several more nearby positions, killing all of the German soldiers there.
Enraged by this act, Murphy charged and killed the Germans that had just killed his friend. It was there that his best friend, Lattie Tipton, was lured into the open and killed by a German soldier pretending to surrender. In August 1944, Murphy's division moved to southern France as part of Operation Dragoon. Despite such setbacks, he continually distinguished himself in battle.
While fighting in the wet mountains of Italy, Murphy contracted malaria. His actions on the ground impressed his superior officers and they quickly promoted him to corporal. Military CareerĪ few months later, Murphy's division moved to invade Sicily. In February 1943, he left for North Africa, where he received extensive training. Moved to do something to honor his mother's life, Murphy enlisted in the military 10 days after his 17th birthday. In 1940, Murphy's father deserted the family for good, and his mother passed away a year later. Picking up the slack, Murphy helped feed his mother and siblings by hunting rabbits and other small animals around their property. Murphy's father, Emit, fell short on his parental responsibilities, continuing to father children, 12 in all, despite the fact that he had no plan for how to feed them. Early Lifeīorn in Kingston, Hunt County, Texas, on June 20, 1925, Murphy was raised in a sharecropper's dilapidated house. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder throughout his life. After the war, he appeared in more than 40 films. Though he was around 20 years old at the end of the war, he had killed 240 German soldiers, had been wounded three times and had earned 33 awards and medals. Audie Murphy eventually became the most decorated U.S.
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