Audie Murphy was a small man, a touch over 5 feet, 5 inches tall. He came from a Texas sharecropper family; after his mother took ill in 1936, and his father — who was "not lazy, but had a ...

Pam Murphy had lived in Audie’s massive shadow for 20 years. She never complained publicly when his gambling took all their money, and his philandering stole their marriage.

On May 28, 1971, Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated veterans of all time, died in a plane crash in Roanoke County. ... “Take a trip up here, bring the children, show the monument.

Hermon Whaley Jr.) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Members of Fort Liberty's Sergeant Audie Murphy Club welcome their two newest inductees during a ceremony at Fort Liberty, N ...

Bill Weinberg remembers his old war buddy Audie Murphy. Weinberg, who grew up in Gloucester County, N.J., fought with Murphy in France in World War II and vividly recalls the skinny, teenage Texan&… ...