Audie Leon Murphy was an Army Veteran and one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. Murphy was born in 1925 on a north Texas sharecropper farm and as a child was known for his accuracy with a gun. Murphy’s father left the family and as a child, Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade picked cotton for a dollar a day. Murphy’s mother died when he was only 16, leaving him and his siblings orphaned. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy was determined to jo

Audie Murphy was born on June 20, 1925, in the community of Kingston, Texas, located in Hunt County, just north of Greenville. He grew up on farms in the Farmersville and Greenville areas, and near Celeste, Texas.   While not born in Greenville itself, Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Army at the downtown Greenville post office in 1942. The city honors his legacy through the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, which features exhibits on his military service and contributions. #AudieMurphy #WWIIHer