What are the legendary stories of the armies of various countries during World War II?

Audie Leon Murphy was the most decorated American soldier during World War II. He served in North Africa and Europe for 27 months before and after he joined the war, and was recognized for his bravery in combat. ***Received 33 medals, including the U.S. Army's highest award, the Medal of Honor, and all the various medals of the U.S. Army at that time. After the war, he became a Hollywood movie star, and one of his blockbusters maintained the highest box office record for nearly 20 years. After he died in a plane crash in 1971, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The number of people who visited his tomb in the cemetery ranked second, second only to President Kennedy's tomb in the same cemetery.

Otty Murphy was born in an Irish immigrant family in Hunter County, Texas. His parents were sharecroppers. According to Chinese parlance, he was definitely from a poor lower-middle peasant background. No wonder he later performed so well. His parents had 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood, Oti being the sixth. When he was in the fifth grade of elementary school, he dropped out of school to work because his father abandoned the family. He found work plowing fields and picking cotton on various nearby farms. When he had work, he could earn one dollar a day, which could supplement the family income. During this period, he also mastered the art of hunting with a rifle. The prey was usually hares and quails. This was purely forced, because if he couldn't catch the prey, the family would be in trouble. When he was 15 years old, his mother died of illness, and several of his younger siblings were sent to orphanages until he took them back after the war. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he actively requested to join the US military. He originally wanted to fight the Japanese, but he did not expect that he would mainly fight the German *** on the European battlefield. In June 1942, just after his 16th birthday, his sister Connie helped him fake his birth date by two years and signed up to join the army, pretending to be 18 years old or older. However, both the Marine Corps and the Airborne Corps refused to enlist him because of his small stature (1.65 meters), and only the Army accepted him. In the recruit company, the company commander saw that he was thin and thin, and once wanted him to become a cook as a cuckold, but he insisted on joining the combat unit, and finally got his wish and accepted infantry training. In early 1943, as a supplementary soldier in Company B of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division, he was transported to Casablanca to participate in the North African Campaign, but he did not directly participate in the battle in Africa. On July 10, 1943, the 3rd Division landed in Sicily as the left wing of Patton's Seventh Army and entered the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. In Otty Murphy's first battle, he saw two enemy officers jumping from their positions onto two horses to escape, so he fired two shots, knocking the two officers off their horses. Promoted to corporal.

In September 1943, the U.S. military landed in Salerno, Italy. One night, a patrol led by Oti was ambushed by the Germans. He responded calmly, but the ambushed Germans were killed by three people. , captured several people, and this battle also allowed him to be promoted to sergeant. In the subsequent battles such as Anzio, he won a series of medals. In August 1944, the 3rd Division landed in southern France. During the battle, Oti's comrade Brandon was killed in front of a German machine gun position that was pretending to surrender. Oti went crazy and single-handedly captured the machine gun position. position, and then used German machine guns to clear several nearby German firepower points. For this, he received the "Distinguished Service Medal" (DSC) from the US military, which is second only to the "Medal of Honor". In this battle, the 3rd Division suffered 4,500 casualties.

Soon after, he received the Silver Star Medal and was promoted to warrant officer platoon leader. But 12 days after his promotion, he was shot in the thigh by a sniper. He was hospitalized for 10 weeks and then returned to the army with a bandage. But a few days later a mortar bomb exploded next to him, killing two comrades, and he was wounded again.

On January 25, 1945, he was promoted to company commander. The next day, January 26, 1945, was the day when he really shined. The battle in Holtwitzr, France, began. The temperature at that time was It was minus 10 degrees Celsius and the snow was 60 centimeters thick. Due to continuous fighting, only 19 of the 128-man company he led were able to fight. It was under such circumstances that he received the Medal of Honor, the highest medal in the U.S. military. The award certificate of the medal authoritatively describes the battle: "The B Company led by Warrant Officer Murphy was attacked by six German tanks and several infantry in several waves. Warrant Officer Murphy ordered the entire company to withdraw to the preset position in the woods behind him. He was left alone to observe and direct our artillery fire on the forward position, causing a lot of damage to the advancing German infantry. During the battle, on the right side of his rear, one of our self-propelled anti-tank guns was attacked by the enemy. The artillery fire directly hit and burned, and the surviving gunners also retreated into the woods. At this time, the enemy infantry had reached a position parallel to Warrant Officer Murphy. Upon seeing this, Warrant Officer Murphy climbed onto the burning self-propelled anti-tank gun and risked the explosion of the anti-tank shell. In order to avoid the danger, he used the vehicle-mounted 12.7mm machine gun to shoot at the German infantry. He was exposed to German firepower from three directions, but he kept using the machine gun to shoot at the German infantry, killing and wounding dozens of people, forcing the infantry to retreat with the German army. The tank broke away and the German tank had to retreat. He held on to the position for more than an hour. During this time, a German infantry squad tried to sneak up on him and remove him. After he discovered it, he used a machine gun to eliminate it. The enemy was only 10 yards away (approximately 10 yards away). 9 meters).

He was injured in the leg during the battle, but he ignored it at all. It was not until the bullets were gone and the telephone line used to direct the artillery was blown up by the artillery shells that he retreated into the woods. After joining the company, he did not bother to bandage the wound and immediately organized The entire company (19 men) counterattacked and directed the artillery fire again. In this battle, he personally killed and wounded about 50 German soldiers. His fearless courage to not give up an inch of ground not only saved the company from being encircled and annihilated, but also prevented the German army from conquering the target. ”

In 21 months of fighting, Murphy’s record was to destroy 6 German tanks, kill about 240 Germans, and capture more enemy troops. At the end of the war, he not only took all the U.S. troops He has won many medals (including three Purple Hearts for being wounded three times), and also received 5 medals from France and Belgium. He was the most decorated person in the US military during World War II. There was only one Matt in the US military. Colonel Urban has more medals than him, but the colonel does not receive all kinds of awards, and lacks the important Distinguished Service Medal.

It is said that the war is over, and the stories of all combat heroes are almost over here, but don’t forget. Oty Lyon Murphy lives in the United States. This is an American legend.

In June 1945, one month after Germany surrendered, Oti returned from Europe and went to his hometown in Germany. Texas was greeted with flowers, cocktail parties and speeches. In September 1945, he retired from active service with the rank of lieutenant. However, after the outbreak of the American War in 1950, he rejoined the 36th Division of the Texas National Guard. The 36th Division was not sent to Japan. He finally retired from the National Guard in 1966, with the final rank of major.

In the postwar days, Oty suffered from post-traumatic syndrome for a long time. , insomnia, depression and nightmares accompanied him, and by the mid-1960s he was addicted to sleeping pills. He bravely broke the taboo of not talking about postwar psychiatric symptoms at that time, called attention to the mental problems of World War II soldiers, and demanded that the United States be freed. * Attention and research. After the war, he married twice, and his second marriage gave him two sons. As a combat hero, he was the cover character of the July 16, 1945 issue of "Life Weekly." , this photo attracted the attention of Hollywood. In September 1945, he was introduced to Hollywood and starred in several films, but life was not easy in the first few years. Most of his roles were small roles in western films, including cowboys. , also played villains and professional killers.

In 1949, he wrote an autobiography titled "To Hell and Back". The book was written very modestly and did not mention much. He did not describe himself as a hero when it came to the medals and military exploits he had received. On the contrary, he mainly remembered and praised his comrades in arms. Unexpectedly, it was this book that aroused the interest of Universal Pictures and decided to make it a movie. screen, and asked Oti to play himself. In 1955, the film's first-run box office reached 10 million U.S. dollars, becoming the highest-grossing film in Universal's 43 years of existence. The record lasted for 20 years until it was broken by Spielberg's "Jaws" in 1975. Oti naturally became a successful movie star. He has appeared in more than 30 movies and also appeared in some TV series. The salary and autobiography remuneration exceeds 3 million US dollars. In addition, he is also a well-known country song songwriter and has a record. The star No. 1601 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is Oty&-183. ;Lyon&-183;Murphy Star. On May 28, 1971, during the Memorial Day weekend of World War I, Oty was riding in his private plane when the plane crashed into a mountain in Virginia, killing himself, the pilot and several other passengers.

On June 7, 1971, the body of Otty Lyon Murphy was buried in Arlington Cemetery. The representative attending the funeral on behalf of the American Communist Party was also a multiple-time The decorated World War II veteran and later U.S. President George W. ***. Oti had stated before his death that the tombstone should be the same as that of ordinary comrades after death, so the tombstone itself was inconspicuous. However, due to so many visitors, the cemetery later laid a special path for it. There is one mistake on the tombstone that no one is willing to correct, and that is the year of birth that Ottie Lyon Murphy lied about two years early in order to sneak into the U.S. Army, June 1924. 20th.