Audie murphy bio biography book

American soldier, Medal of Honor winner, and actor (–)

For other people with similar names, see Eddie Murphy (disambiguation).

Audie Leon Murphy (20 June &#;– 28 May ) was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter.

He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II,^[4] and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.^[6] He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.

Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at age 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January , before leading a successful counterattack while wounded.

Murphy was born into a large family of sharecroppers in Hunt County, Texas. After his father abandoned them, his mother died when he was a teenager. Murphy left school in