Happy Birthday, Army and Audie Murphy

Happy Birthday, Army and Audie Murphy

If you've read my odd musings before, you probably know I'm a sucker for big anniversaries.

Audie Murphy centenary: how the most decorated soldier in American history became a movie star

Already a military hero by the age of 20, where else could Audie Murphy go but into a Hollywood movie career? One hundred years after he was born, we remember an actor who – although plagued by PTSD throughout his career – became one of the western’s steadiest hands.