A Salute to Audie Murphy - 'Most Decorated' Combat Soldier of WWII
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2014
- A Salute to Audie Murphy - 'Most Decorated' Combat Soldier of WWII shown through a slide show montage of still photographs of Murphy from childhood through late life and death.
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Audie Murphy's memoirs of WW2
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Photographs Courtesy: www.audiemurphy.com
Musical Score 'Dogface Soldiers' Courtesy: U.S. Army Chorus
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Happy Happy Birthday Audie! Thank You For Your Service To This Country! We can never thank you enough. I hope you are happy where you are.
When I got to 3rd infantry division August 1986 Wurzburg West Germany the new soldiers were placed in a waiting room and to hell & back was on. The vhs tape would rewind and they kept it playing the whole time. Great memories, sometimes I wish I was in his old unit 2/15 infantry
What amazes even more is that he did all this by the age of 19!
Audie Murphy is a true inspiration turn down by the Navy and the Marines but it was accepted into the army he went in as a boy but he came home a man before he was 20 years old he is a true inspiration to every American and all our servicemen God bless the Armed Forces God Bless America God bless Audie Murphy
I'm proud of audie Murphy I'm English I watch his films all the time on sky on British TV he is hero to everyone and every e who watches his films died to young but wgat a great ambassador for united state of America he was great love all his films he seemed a nice lovable guy god rest his soul never be anyone like him again pity
What a guy, he was So brave, such a sweet guy also, he was good at everything he did. So soft spoken he is missed by a lot of people. Rest in Peace sweet angel.
Truly a great Irish American Hero. A great inspiration to us all. He will always be remembered. Freedom and liberty.🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I love how these tributes celebrate his life, his bravery. He is so alive even today in the examples that he set for future generations.
Such an American Hero. Loved your movies. Rest in Peace. 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
I cried when I visited his grave at Arlington. I was the only one there at the time and it was a very solemn moment.
you are wonderful
I've never visited his grave it must have been solemn
@Vic Marrotti He should be the No. 1 most visited grave, before any Kennedy!
I too got off the tourist bus and everyone went to the Custis mansion and I went to Audie's grave. He and my dad could have been twins. My dad was from Texas and worked at a refinery in Houston when he was drafted. They looked so much alike and also built the same, and fought in the same places and battles. My dad got shot in the ankle and was bandaged and sent back into battle. In Italy he was blown up on a land mine and the huge machine he was building a road with landed on his head and crushed it. He had a metal plate put in. My dad was never the same. He was in 30 months of heavy battle. It took three months for him to find out his mother died. Wars are horrible. No one ever really wins.
so proud of Audie... he shows real American Spirit ... he is a great hero from WW II..being 16 yr old to join the Arny cause the other military wouldn't take him....a brave man... RIP Audie we still remember you and love you
Thank you Audie Murphy a true American hero!
Yes thank You Audie a true Hero
When I was little, we went to downtown Dallas to see his movie and although I don't remember it, my mom said we met him and he patted me on my head.
I'm both amazed and disappointed that more people don't remember him.
Ted i remember him. I was not alive then, i read about him and saw his movies. He not only was a here but a good actor.
Being a Texan born in 1943, I grew up knowing exactly who Audie was...a Texas farm boy, who was the best of the best!
AHe is remembered by most people who were alive during his lifetime,however to know who he was one has to read a book,see a movie or be taught by friend or family. In the fifty's I was told by a military person that I looked like him. That's when I found out who he was. My sister went to see the movie To Hell and Back ( I was on restriction and could not go) . When she came home she said "you don't only look like him,you sound like him. I was flattered even if I am a girl. I have a friend who years later bought an 8x10 photo of him for me because she said when she saw it ,it reminded her of me. We are not related.
He was so easy on the eyes, so many others could have went instead of him..what a great loss
The fact that he died violently at a young age tells me that God had chosen him for his place and time to be a great soldier. He was taken from us and never had to suffer PTSD again.
Audie Murphy was 11 or 12 years older then I but I remember learning about him shortly after the war ended. What a man and at such a young age. But, people, remember that he was the most highly decorated DURING WWII. Since then there have been others to hold that distinction during their time and their contribution to our Country should not be deminished.
Yes, Sgt. Alvin York was the great soldier in WW1. He also was a country boy who was soft spoken, and had little formal education, but was smart as a whip, like Audie...
Good bless you murph,🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏴
a nice and wonderful video to my favor star....and I knew him is a real hero only a week really a great surprise
Dad was WWII. MOM would talk about Audie.
Audi's is the most visited grave site in Arlington, second only to JFK or so I have read. Also, as I recall there is a memorial to Audi in Farmersville, Texas. That is, if I remember correctly. I have driven through the small Texas town that Audi once lived in and seem to recall the memorial.
A farm boy from Farmersville, TX. Perfect.
A Memorial Day Tribute to Audie Murphy, America's 'most decorated combat soldier' of WWII! Moving Video!
My generation was born during WWII. Therefor: As my crowd was still children we all wanted to be a Army war hero like Audie Murphy. Back in my time we found true hero's to emulate, not ball players or make believe Hollywood stars. That's how it was during the early 1950's. Respectfully submitted; A life long fan of Audie Murphy.
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Born in 62, grew up the same way.
In the movies, when one of hos friends died, Audie Murphy would mow down a Panzer division single handed.
I was born in 1948 and liked Audie Murphy. He is still a hero in 2018.
Me, too.
A Texas girl who loved our Audie!
EU QUANDO ERA CRIANÇA...ASSISTA HÁ MUITOS FILMES DE BANG-BANG...E ENTRE OS ATORES QUE EU MAIS GOSTAVA ERA JUSTAMENTE:...AUDIE MURPHY...*SAUDADES DAQUELES TEMPOS*...*DAQUELAS ÉPOCAS*...
A real hero.
Nicely done Dave. I liked the sequence and it's nice to see that the caisson photo (a rare one) has been included. Another great tribute to a great American hero.
Thanks Richard, nice to see you are back online and active again! Adding more names on your website of those received this week today!
what a humble brave guy god bless him
the best
All of John Wayne’s WWII characters personified. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Except that John Wayne never fought (except in the movies),
Our Lord Jesus put Audi Murphy where he did the most for good. The Marines Army Airborne refused Audi acceptance because God put him in Army Infantry to save Allied forces
I Served RIP Audie Murphy you did Army proud
..Great guy !!!!
Actor Nevelle Brand was a well decorated hero also!!
Great man !
very good
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Has anyone out their ever heard of Maison Fort in Orleans France?
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What happened to audie Murphys sons
It must have been a bit stressful, living in the shadow of their hero Dad.
turn this guy lose on Isis!!!
super handsome all of you I am sure
Audie had the classic, clean cut, boyish good looks that all the girls and Moms, too, fell in love with.
Odd that in todays army you can almost come back with that amount but not quality with one nocom tour.
I agree with you! Used to be medals were hard earned. Case in point is Ike who had two Army Distinguished Service Medals over his entire Army career. Petraeous has like 5 awards of the same and he is no Eisenhower.
Not true. Charles Upham is more highly decorated, gaining the VC Bar, which is the same as two MOHs. Murphy had one.
Audie's was during WW2, what length of time is Mr.Upham's for?
Upham was also in WW2 and fought long before Audie did. He also went through far more, and was sent to Oflag IV-C, the worst prison in Germany.
I wonder why there is not more info on this hero. I remember that there was someone more decorated than Aidie but he was in WWII, Korea and Viet Nam.
Upham VC NUMBER ONE: During the operations in Crete this officer performed a series of remarkable exploits, showing outstanding leadership, tactical skill and utter indifference to danger.
He commanded a forward platoon in the attack on Maleme on 22nd May and fought his way forward for over 3,000 yards unsupported by any other arms and against a defence strongly organised in depth. During this operation his platoon destroyed numerous enemy posts but on three occasions sections were temporarily held up.
In the first case, under a heavy fire from a machine gun nest he advanced to close quarters with pistol and grenades, so demoralizing the occupants that his section was able to "mop up" with ease.
Another of his sections was then held up by two machine guns in a house. He went in and placed a grenade through a window, destroying the crew of one machine gun and several others, the other machine gun being silenced by the fire of his sections.
In the third case he crawled to within 15 yards of an M.G. post and killed the gunners with a grenade.
When his Company withdrew from Maleme he helped to carry a wounded man out under fire, and together with another officer rallied more men together to carry other wounded men out.
He was then sent to bring in a company which had become isolated. With a Corporal he went through enemy territory over 600 yards, killing two Germans on the way, found the company, and brought it back to the Battalion's new position. But for this action it would have been completely cut off.
During the following two days his platoon occupied an exposed position on forward slopes and was continuously under fire. Second Lieutenant Upham was blown over by one mortar shell, and painfully wounded by a piece of shrapnel behind the left shoulder, by another. He disregarded this wound and remained on duty. He also received a bullet in the foot which he later removed in Egypt.
At Galatas on 25th May his platoon was heavily engaged and came under severe mortar and machine-gun fire. While his platoon stopped under cover of a ridge Second-Lieutenant Upham went forward, observed the enemy and brought the platoon forward when the Germans advanced. They killed over 40 with fire and grenades and forced the remainder to fall back.
When his platoon was ordered to retire he sent it back under the platoon Sergeant and he went back to warn other troops that they were being cut off. When he came out himself he was fired on by two Germans. He fell and shammed dead, then crawled into a position and having the use of only one arm rested his rifle in the fork of a tree and as the Germans came forward he killed them both. The second to fall actually hit the muzzle of the rifle as he fell.
On 30th May at Sphakia his platoon was ordered to deal with a party of the enemy which had advanced down a ravine to near Force Headquarters. Though in an exhausted condition he climbed the steep hill to the west of the ravine, placed his men in positions on the slope overlooking the ravine and himself went to the top with a Bren Gun and two riflemen. By clever tactics he induced the enemy party to expose itself and then at a range of 500 yards shot 22 and caused the remainder to disperse in panic.
During the whole of the operations he suffered from dysentery and was able to eat very little, in addition to being wounded and bruised.
He showed superb coolness, great skill and dash and complete disregard of danger. His conduct and leadership inspired his whole platoon to fight magnificently throughout, and in fact was an inspiration to the Battalion. UPHAM VC NUMBER 2:Upham was evacuated to Egypt, now promoted to captain. He received a Bar to his VC for his actions on 14-15 July 1942, during the First Battle of El Alamein.CitationWar Office, 26th September, 1945.The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the award of a Bar to the VICTORIA CROSS to: -Captain Charles Hazlitt UPHAM, V.C. (8077), New Zealand Military Forces.Captain C. H. Upham, V.C., was commanding a Company of New Zealand troops in the Western Desert during the operations which culminated in the attack on El Ruweisat Ridge on the night of 14th-15th July, 1942.In spite of being twice wounded, once when crossing open ground swept by enemy fire to inspect his forward sections guarding our mine-fields and again when he completely destroyed an entire truck load of German soldiers with hand grenades, Captain Upham insisted on remaining with his men to take part in the final assault.During the opening stages of the attack on the ridge Captain Upham's Company formed part of the reserve battalion, but, when communications with the forward troops broke down and he was instructed to send up an officer to report on the progress of the attack, he went out himself armed with a Spandau gun and, after several sharp encounters with enemy machine gun posts, succeeded in bringing back the required information.Just before dawn the reserve battalion was ordered forward, but, when it had almost reached its objective, very heavy fire was encountered from a strongly defended enemy locality, consisting of four machine gun posts and a number of tanks.Captain Upham, without hesitation, at once led his Company in a determined attack on the two nearest strongpoints on the left flank of the sector. His voice could be heard above the din of battle cheering on his men and, in spite of the fierce resistance of the enemy and the heavy casualties on both sides, the objective was captured.Captain Upham, during the engagement, himself destroyed a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades and although he was shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and had his arm broken, he went on again to a forward position and brought back some of his men who had become isolated. He continued to dominate the situation until his men had beaten off a violent enemy counter-attack and consolidated the vital position which they had won under his inspiring leadership.Exhausted by pain from his wound and weak from loss of blood Captain Upham was then removed to the Regimental Aid Post but immediately his wound had been dressed he returned to his men, remaining with them all day long under heavy enemy artillery and mortar fire, until he was again severely wounded and being now unable to move fell into the hands of the enemy when, his gallant Company having been reduced to only six survivors, his position was finally overrun by superior enemy forces, in spite of the outstanding gallantry and magnificent leadership shown by Captain Upham.The Victoria Cross was conferred on Captain Upham for conspicuous bravery during the operations in Crete in May, 1941, and the award was announced in the London Gazette dated 14th October, 1941.
In addition to being awarded the United States Medal of Honor, Audie L. Murphey was also awarded the French equivalent , The National Order of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier Class. That makes two Medals of Honor. Upham is listed as the Commonwealth's most decorated. Murphey listed as U.S.'s most decorated. Upham was born in 1908. So, in 1945, he was 37, while Murphey was only 20 years old, and had won his medal before his 19th birthday. Lastly, the United States only allows one Medal of Honor to be awarded per individual soldier, regardless of deserving efforts. Comparing these two heroes is like comparing apples and oranges. I salute both.
A National Hero Armys most Decorated Hero go Army branch in Witch
I Served RIP Audie Murphy
A Memorial Day Tribute to Audie Murphy, America's 'most decorated combat soldier' of WWII! Moving Video!
Thanks for the plus one Joe