Audie Murphy's Legacy

“I feel no qualms; no pride; no remorse,” he said in To Hell And Back, the 1949 autobiography he co-wrote with journalist and friend David McClure. Audie Murphy joined the Army at the tender age of 17. Once thought to be to small and underweight to be a soldier proved he was the hero, leader, and strategizer the military needed to win the war. Murphy was immediately sent to Italy where he got his first taste of war. In Sicily he began building his legacy as the ultimate soldier when he killed his first enemy combatants. two Italian officers. Murphy was awarded his first of many medals for this action. Matter of fact he was awarded every medal imaginable our nation could offer. Audie Murphy's size would prove to be beneficial when he could sneak up on enemy tanks and drop grenades into them. Soon Murphy would become a sergeant and lead his own soldiers into battle. In 1944 Company B moved into France to liberate it from Nazi rule.
While moving up the hill he lost many men but fought forward. During this time the German's raised a white flag and when his closest friend and father figure Private Tipton rose he was riddled with bullets from the surrendering Germans. In a rage and out of ammo he captured a German machine gun and killed all the soldiers in the nest. Then without breaking stride he ran up the hill and took out several more nests single handedly. For this he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and gave it to Private Tipton's