He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...

Audie Leon Murphy was born on June 20, 1925, in Kingston, Texas. He was the seventh of twelve children born to Emmett Berry Murphy and Josie Bell Murphy. The family survived by sharecropping — farming ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Sgt. Maj. Nathaniel Piper, 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber), and Staff Sgt. Daniel Colón, E Company, 782nd MI Battalion (Cyber), were recently inducted into the ...

Turner Classic Movies gave itself a makeover earlier this year, updating its look and trying out new approaches with its programming in an effort to introduce new audiences to amazing old movies. One ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Two of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital’s noncommissioned officers were inducted into the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club May 7 at Wilson Theater, demonstrating both their leadership ...

Audie Murphy was born on this day, June 20, in 1925. There is sometimes confusion over his year of birth — as he falsified a birth certificate to join the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He ...

NEW MARKET, Va. – Tuesday marks the 53rd anniversary of a plane crash in Roanoke County that claimed the life of one of the most decorated veterans of all time. Audie Murphy served in the Army during ...

In Texas, 76 men have been awarded the Medal of Honor for their courage above and beyond the call of duty since the inception of the medal. Perhaps the most recognizable of those figures from World ...

When "The End" flashed on the screen at the conclusion of the film, the audience broke out in applause. The 75 or so patrons in the Texan Theater had just watched their hero, Audie Murphy, the most ...

If you’ve read my odd musings before, you probably know I’m a sucker for big anniversaries. This past weekend I got to attend a local event marking the 250th Anniversary of the formation of the United ...

Not long after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, a then-16-year-old Audie Murphy of Kingston, Texas (near Celeste) had his older sister help him falsify documentation so he ...