Summary: Audie Murphy the icon wasn't born on the big screen, but on the battlefields of Europe. Murphy, as a diminutive boy of 17, lied about his age to join the Army—the only branch that would take him—and went on to become the most distinguished and decorated warrior of World War II. Pretty good for a poor Texas boy, who was the son of sharecroppers. It was in San Antonio that the young man would discover his fame, reportedly gobsmacked at the idea that thousands of people knew his name. He was
