No One Believed These Audie Murphy Stories! Until They Watched This!

audieNo One Believed These Audie Murphy Stories! Until They Watched This The Most Decorated Soldier in American History Was Rejected THREE Times - Then Killed 241 Enemy Soldiers By Age 19 Audie Murphy was rejected by the Marines, Navy, and Army for being too small at just 5'5" and 110 pounds. They told him to go home and drink milk. But by age 19, this Texas farm boy had earned every single American combat medal for valor, killed 241 enemy soldiers, and climbed on top of a burning tank destroyer that could explode any second while fighting off 250 Germans alone. This is the true story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in World War II, who became a Hollywood star in Universal's biggest movie until Jaws, then lost everything to gambling and PTSD. He slept with a loaded gun under his pillow every night. He testified before Congress about battle fatigue when no other veteran would speak up. And he died in a plane crash at age 45 after surviving three years of intense combat. Discover how a sharecropper's son who left school in fifth grade to pick cotton became Lieutenant Audie Murphy with 33 medals including the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, and France's highest honor the Legion of Honor. Learn why he refused million dollar endorsement deals even when broke, how James Cagney took him into his own home after seeing his condition, and why his grave at Arlington National Cemetery remains one of the most visited over 50 years after his death. From his mother's death when he was 16 and placing his siblings in an orphanage, to standing on a burning M10 tank destroyer at Holtzwihr France calling in artillery strikes while wounded, to breaking his sleeping pill addiction through sheer willpower, to speaking publicly about PTSD and saving veteran lives after the war. This is the complete story of the baby-faced soldier on the July 1945 Life Magazine cover who changed American military history forever. Share which part of Audie Murphy's story impacted you most in the comments. Was it his three military rejections, the burning tank destroyer at age 19, his 33 combat medals, his struggle with PTSD, or his tragic death in 1971? Subscribe for more true stories about American heroes from World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the greatest generation who fought for our freedom. #AudieMurphy #WorldWarII #MedalOfHonor #MostDecoratedSoldier #WWIIHistory #MilitaryHistory #AmericanHero #ToHellAndBack #PTSD #VietnamVeterans #KoreanWar #ArlingtonCemetery #GreatestGeneration #TrueWarStories #MilitaryVeterans #CombatHero #WWIIVeteran #LifeMagazine #JamesCagney #UniversalStudios #1940s #TexasHistory #FrenchLegionOfHonor #BattleOfTheBulge #Holtzwihr #ThirdInfantryDivision ---