On June 20, 1926, in Hunter County, near Kingston, Texas, a baby boy was born in the home of a poor farmer of Irish descent.
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Audi. Murphy's birth did not bring joy and joy to his parents, but on the contrary, he had a mouth waiting to be fed, which made the originally poor family even worse, because his parents had 5 children before he was born.
After that, his parents added 6 younger siblings after him, and at that time, the United States was not the most powerful and developed country in the world. Murphy's life is embarrassing.
After attending school for a few years, because of his father's abandonment and family reasons, Audi. Murphy had to drop out of school to do farm work and work on a hired farm to support his family; in addition, he worked in auto gas stations, auto repair shops, and grocery stores at a young age, and the hard work of the work made him understand the society early; the people of Texas in the United States made Audi . Murphy has had a good marksmanship since he was a child.
In May 1941, at the Audi. Murphy's mother died when she turned 15. The death of his mother heralded the collapse of the pillars of the family, Audi. Murphy and his siblings were orphaned overnight; in December of the same year, the "Pearl Harbor Incident" broke out, and the United States officially joined the battlefield of World War II, and like countless enthusiastic American youths, Audi. Murphy had the idea of joining the army and going to war.
Thanks to Audi. Murphy, who was only 15 years old and had not reached the age of joining the military in the U.S. Constitution, was denied his request by the Recruitment Office. In June of the following year, Audi. On Murphy's 16th birthday, his sister tampered with his date of birth from 1926 to 1924, so that theoretically at the age of 18 he reached the legal enlistment age and put on the military uniform as he wished.
It could have been malnutrition or congenital causes of Audi at the time. Murphy was only 5.5 feet (about 1.66 meters) tall, far below the height of his comrades, and the Navy and Air Force rejected him one after another. In the boot camp, the instructor did not arrange him well, and among the tall American soldiers, there was a baby-faced, not very tall Audi. Murphy is indeed too young, and if the instructor wants him to become a gang leader, he must be cutting potatoes in the kitchen and baking toast, which does not have such high requirements for height and physical fitness.
But Audi. Murphy's head is a tendon, he has to become a real American soldier, and finally under his own efforts, after more than ten weeks of recruit training, the army with the highest mortality rate on the battlefield accepted him and went to the army base for advanced training, thus starting a service career in the army.
On July 9, 1943, one of the largest Allied landing operations, the "Battle of Sicily", began, and Audi . Murphy took part in the campaign as a soldier in the 15th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division stationed in Morocco, his first operation.
During the battle, Audi. With his excellent shotgun skills, Murphy killed two Italian officials who had slipped away, and was promoted to corporal, but he was dissatisfied with the water and soil of Italy or suffered from malaria for physical reasons, which made him enter the hospital several times for recuperation.
After that, thanks to Audi. Murphy's outstanding performance in various Italian battles, he was promoted to sergeant and received several medals.
On August 15, 1944, Audi. Murphy's 3rd Infantry Division landed in southern France, and in a battle, his best friend was killed by a German hit, and Murphy, who had lost his friend, was like a hanging, carrying a German machine gun and a few grenades that killed his friend, and cleared several German fire points under a charge.
The U.S. 3rd Infantry Division suffered heavy casualties in France, with nearly 5,000 soldiers killed or wounded in seven consecutive weeks of combat. Because Audi. Murphy's outstanding performance, after this battle, he was awarded the Distinguished Cross medal second only to the Medal of Honor, and the war made his position rise again and again, from corporal directly to sergeant, and then to deputy platoon leader, and during the war, he was ordered to change his rank to second lieutenant, Audi. Murphy became a platoon leader again, wounded again and again in the war, and escaped death again and again, and the baby-faced boy had grown into a qualified soldier in the war.
If this battle made him "famous in the first world war", then what made him "a god in the first world war" was the battle in Herzwil, France.
At the end of January 1945, the temperature in Herzwil, France, was below -10 °C, and on this day when the water was frozen, Audi had been promoted to company commander. Murphy led a force of 128 men on combat missions. Due to the bad weather and the fierce fighting, only 19 of the 128 people were really able to fight, and many of the rest were incapacitated.
Murphy could only continue with the 19 soldiers, and soon they encountered the vanguard of the German army, a mobile unit consisting of six Tiger heavy tanks and two German reinforced infantry companies.
Encounters are on the verge of breaking out. Under the heavy artillery fire of the Tiger heavy tanks and the fierce offensive of the German infantry, the American B Company, which had only a dozen people under the leadership of Murphy, was attacked by six waves of German attacks, and only a few M10 tank destroyers were vulnerable like dough in front of the Tiger heavy tank.
Murphy had to allow his men to retreat to the rear of the battlefield, and he alone contacted and guided the artillery unit by telephone, and suppressed the German offensive with artillery. Under the support of the overwhelming artillery fire of the American army, the "Tiger" tank began to retreat, the German infantry company found his position and launched a charge, Murphy shot the Carbine bullets he carried with the Germans, and then climbed up to the M10 tank destroyer that was destroyed by the "Tiger" and was still burning. With the 12.7mm machine gun equipped on the vehicle to strafe the German infantry in three directions, Murphy could not even take care of his own leg wounds for a full hour, until he ran out of ammunition on the vehicle; the Support of American artillery fire made it difficult for the Germans to move, and the Tiger tanks lost the cover of infantry and retreated.
This battle in the hands of crazy Audi. Murphy alone killed and wounded more than 50 German soldiers, a staggering 240 with the support of artillery fire, and organized a company counterattack, capturing a large number of German prisoners of war; after the news of his heroic deeds spread, many people joined his organized counteroffensive and drove the Germans out of the Herzweil area.
After this battle, Audi. Murphy left the front line and flew back from Paris back to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. Audi. During his 29 months in service, Murphy received 33 all of the U.S. Wartime Medals, five French Medals and one Belgian Medal, and grew to 170 centimeters tall and halved his weight, when his actual age was less than 20 years old.
Is the story of this American hero familiar? That's right, he was exactly by Chris. Evans starred in the Hollywood sci-fi movie Captain America. The prototype of Rogers. Captain America's comics though predate Audi though. Murphy, but the main storyline of the later period was adapted from his deeds.
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After the surrender of Germany in 1945, Audi. Murphy was treated heroically upon his return and was invited to various speeches, parades, and banquets, and was famous in the United States on the cover of magazines, and retired as a lieutenant at the end of the year and broke away from the U.S. military.
Like most soldiers who survived the battlefield, Audi after retirement. Deeply plagued by postwar trauma syndrome (known as "shell shock" during World War I and "post-war fatigue" during World War II), Murphy had to rely on drugs, and in order to quit his dependence on drugs, he isolated himself from the world in a motel for a week, relying on spirit and will to quit dependence on drugs.
Later, Murphy worked as a farmer, raised horse racing, worked as a businessman, and published a best-selling autobiographical novel "The Return of a Hundred Battles", had two marriages in his life, and had two sons with his second wife; and was later invited to Hollywood to develop, although the beginning of the actor's road was not smooth, but finally became a successful actor, and played himself, although he was very resistant.
On May 28, 1971, when Murphy was traveling on a private plane, the plane crashed in Virginia, leaving the pilot and crew alive, and the "American God of War" ended his life hastily.
Unfortunately, he can't wake up again after decades of slumber, like steve, the fictional "Captain America" based on his prototype, this time with Audi. Murphy will sleep forever at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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