Audie Leon Murphy was a legend in his own time-- war hero, movie actor, writer of country western songs and poet. His biography reads more like fiction than fact.

• Audie spent some 400 days on the front lines

• Earned thirty-three military awards, citations, and decorations, including every medal of valor that America gives as well as three French and one Belgian medal.

• Lieutenant Audie Murphy was the most highly decorated soldier in American history.

• He was killed in a plane crash on a mountain top near Roanoke, Virginia, on May 28, 1971.

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