Happy Audie Murphy day

[candcallen]

Audie Murphy day should be a thing. Little Texas was a bad man.

On a frigid January afternoon in 1945, Company B, 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was attacked on the outskirts of Holtzwihr, France, by six tanks and an estimated 250 German infantrymen, who were determined to wrest the Bois de Riedwihr from the Americans. Certain that his decimated company could not withstand the German onslaught, 1st Lt. Audie L. Murphy ordered his men to fall back to safety deep in the forest. After expending all his carbine ammunition at the enemy, Murphy himself prepared to fall back. Suddenly, he spotted a .50-caliber machine gun on the turret of a burning tank destroyer. Knowing that his position had to be held at all costs, Murphy climbed on top and began firing the machine gun at the oncoming Germans.....

On this day in 1945, Audie Murphy climbed a burning tank and schwacked Nazis with a 50-cal

Audie Murphy would earn a Medal of Honor for his heroics on this day in 1945.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[HawkeyeSATX]

Audie Murphy was only17 when he enlisted. He may have been small in stature, but large in spirit and tenacity!
He was part of the Greatest Generation, and paid for being part of a war that was a silent killer. He, like my grandfather, were both alcoholics, because they were self medicating themselves from the horrors they saw that war can only bring upon brave individuals who go through it. My grandfather was a combat medic, attached to the Big Red 1, and saw first hand what happened during a war, facing a relentless enemy who used the Red Cross emblems on their helmets and arm patches as targets, not to mention the ripped, torn, and mangled bodies he had to make split decisions as to who would live and die.
God Bless Audie Murphy, and the generation that had to stare evil in the face, and had the courage to do so, and persevere.
May Audie Murphy never be forgotten, and the men and women who fought along side him!

Hawk


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Wonder if Farmersville will have their annual Audie Murphy day this June.