Audie Leon Murphy was an Army Veteran and one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. Murphy was born in 1925 on a north Texas sharecropper farm and as a child was known for his accuracy with a gun. Murphy’s father left the family and as a child, Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade picked cotton for a dollar a day. Murphy’s mother died when he was only 16, leaving him and his siblings orphaned. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy was determined to jo

At just 19, Audie Murphy became America’s most decorated WWII soldier. Wounded and outnumbered, he held off an entire German company from atop a burning tank, earning the Medal of Honor, Silver Star, and Legion of Merit for his courage. #TheWarRoom #WWIIHistory #AudieMurphy #WarStories #Fblifestyle | The War Room