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Audie Murphy | |
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Died | 28 May 1971 (aged 45) 14 nautical miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. |
Buried | Arlington National Cemetery |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | United States Army United States Army National Guard United States Army Reserve |
On May 28, 1971, Audie Murphy, the most decorated US soldier in World War II, died in an airplane crash on the slopes of Brush Mountain, near New Castle, VA. Three years later, the Veterans of Foreign Wars placed a stone monument near the site of the crash. The monument may be approached in several ways.
During his rise to fame, Murphy met and married 21-year old actress Wanda Hendrix in 1949. Their marriage appeared rocky from the start and they announced their plans to divorce in 1950. He married again in 1951, this time to Pamela Archer, with whom he had two children.
He was born Audie Leon Murphy, the sixth of nine children, on a farm near Kingston, Texas. He is almost as Irish as his name, but he has a streak of Indian blood inherited from his mother, Josie.
Murphy eventually passed on the opportunity of enrollment at West Point, in part because of limitations resulting from his war injuries. At the end of his active Army service, he was given 50 percent disability classification and transferred to the Officers' Reserve Corps.