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 ...

On January 26th, 1945, near the village of Holtzwihr in the Colmar Pocket, Audie Murphy performed one of the most extraordinary feats of courage of the Second World War. Facing roughly 250 German ...

With names like Audie Murphy and Claire Lee Chennault associated with Hunt County and with Majors Airport beginning operations as a training center for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, ...