CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, earning every major U.S. military honor by age 20. After the ...

As the Germans launched their last, desperate offensive on the Western Front in mid-1918, a relatively new United States Army unit, the 3rd Infantry Division, would earn the nickname "Rock of the ...

Among some of his less-remembered acts as governor, George W. Bush declared June 20th an official Texas state holiday back in 1999, honoring Audie Murphy. From meager beginnings as a North Texas ...

Sep. 20—Navy Seal and Medal of Honor recipient Mike Thornton will serve as the Grand Marshall of the 2024 Texas Veterans Parade on Saturday morning Nov. 9. Thornton is following in the footsteps of ...

June 20th is Audie Murphy’s birthday. He was born in Texas in 1924. The war-hero and actor developed his fondness for Tucson, while making several movies here. The most decorated combat soldier of ...

As the Germans launched their last, desperate offensive on the Western Front in mid-1918, a relatively new United States Army unit, the 3rd Infantry Division, would earn the nickname “Rock of the ...

Audie Murphy enlisted in the United States Army at age 17 to make something of himself. By the end of World War II, Audie Murphy's exploits had earned him every medal his country could give. He was ...

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 ...