Audie Murphy — then a second lieutenant commanding Company B of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division — found himself surrounded by six German tanks and wave after ...

German tanks and infantry hit the regiment's Company B hard, wounding 102 of its 120 enlisted men and killing all of its officers except one: Lt. Audie Murphy. That same day, Murphy led what was ...

While John Rambo is fictional, Morrell based him on Audie Murphy, one of the United States' most decorated soldiers. Murphy ...

Audie Murphy, an East Texan who was hailed as the ... When the Germans knocked out a tank destroyer near his command post, he mounted the flaming vehicle and directed its machine gun at advancing ...