Audie Murphy

[Apex]

They're running Audie Murphy movies this week on Grit TV. I had not seen any of these before, nor did I know anything about him outside of recognizing the name, so I took a look at Wikipedia to find out a bit about him:

from Wikipedia:
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. The 19-year-old Murphy received the Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company of Germans for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.

And also this:

Murphy died in a plane crash in Virginia in 1971 shortly before his 46th birthday, and was interred with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

Other interesting items about him also on Wikipedia.

[Hagar]

He played himself in the 1955 film To Hell & Back which I went to see soon after its release.

[Apex]

Yeah, I missed that one just the other day, wish I had known about him then, woulda made it a point to watch.

[PhantomTweak]

That man is a legend in Marines...They hold him up (rightfully I might add) for all Marines to emulate. Incredible man, just incredible...

Pat

[Romulus111VADT]

That man is a legend in Marines...They hold him up (rightfully I might add) for all Marines to emulate. Incredible man, just incredible...

Pat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

Audie Leon Murphy

Service/branch
United States Army
United States Army National Guard

Years of service
1942–45 (U.S. Army)
1950–66 (Texas National Guard)

Rank
First Lieutenant (USA)
Major (Texas National Guard)

Unit
15th Infantry Regiment
3rd Infantry Division (USA)
36th Infantry Division (Texas National Guard)

I may be incorrect in my assumption, but to the best of my knowledge the US Marines didn't fight in the Europe Theatre of Operation. I know they fought in the Pacific Theatre of Operation.

[Apex]

OK, this should set the record straight as to the Marines fighting in the European theatre in WW2:

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showt ... ope-Africa

They were, of course, all over the Pacific.

It would be interesting to determine why the differences, that is, why were the Marines [apparently] not involved in major action in Europe, assuming I'm getting it right.

[Romulus111VADT]

OK, this should set the record straight as to the Marines fighting in the European theatre in WW2:

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showt ... ope-Africa

They were, of course, all over the Pacific.

It would be interesting to determine why the differences, that is, why were the Marines [apparently] not involved in major action in Europe, assuming I'm getting it right.

I stand corrected; though I was thinking more of major conflicts that Audie Murphy was in.

I honestly didn't consider the training aspects and guard type deployments.