Belatedly on topic: Major Audie Leon Murphy's Medals List. He survived as the USA's most decorated soldier in history!

[Malaria_Kidd II]

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Anthony Drake
2 weeks ago
His ACTUAL list of medals...

Medal of Honor ribbon.svg Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross ribbon.svg Distinguished Service Cross
Silver Star Medal ribbon.svg Silver Star Medal (2)
Legion of Merit ribbon.svg Legion of Merit
Bronze Star Medal ribbon.svg Bronze Star (2, 1 "V" device)
Purple Heart ribbon.svg Purple Heart (3)
Army Good Conduct Medal ribbon.svg Army Good Conduct Medal
U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg Distinguished Unit Citation (2)
American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign ribbon.svg European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (9 campaigns, arrowhead device)
World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation ribbon.svg Army of Occupation Medal with Germany clasp
Legion Honneur Chevalier ribbon.svg French Legion of Honour (grade of Chevalier)
Ruban de la croix de guerre 1939-1945.PNG French Croix de Guerre with silver star
Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm (France) - ribbon bar.png French Croix de Guerre with palm (3)
Croix de Guerre 1940-1945 with palm (Belgium) - ribbon bar.png Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm
Fourragère CG.png French fourragère in colors of the Croix de Guerre
Combat Infantry Badge.svg Combat Infantryman Badge


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[Riddick]

Audie Murphy should never be forgot. But do young folks know him from Adam? At the rate things are going these days he'd be as welcome as a Confederate statue - 'We're living in the worst of times'? Try living during the Great Depression & WWII

IMHO instead of filling their heads with anti-American commie claptrap, you know what movie should be required viewing in public schools? - Audie's To Hell & Back, the story of one of the all-time heroic greats of America's Greatest Generation -


FULL MOVIE

Of course it'll happen over Woke folks' dead bodies. (Just a figure of speech... I'm not advocating their demise. But they'd be glad if 'deplorables' all dropped dead)

[Malaria_Kidd II]

OMGosh Riddick! We're FF deplorable friends for life!

Audie towed HIS movie "To Hell and Back'" directors lines but he was not happy doing so. Twenty years later the blockbuster 1975 movie "Jaws" finally out gro$$ed 1955's "To Hell and Back" for Universal International pictures!

Audie's movie should have been a hair raising one hour longer and I won't say why. But it should be obvious the M10 Tank Destroyer dba Hellcat or Wolverine was omitted for the M4A1 Sherman.

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/M10_tank_destroyer

Scroll down to "Combat use" and at the bottom you can read a notation of Audie's disappointment that the M10 was substituted for the M4!

By 1955 he was a veteran actor knowing, like his military training implied over and over, a soldier had to follow the orders of his superiors. But during the making of his heroic war exploits he was wholly superior to his producer and director!

Going by the book was not part of the movie producer's budget!





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Holtzwihr2015 coming soon annual French citizens tribute at Audie's memorial site of the M-10. His personal, burning, steel redoubt in 1945! I'll be back!