I still own his book "To hell and back"
The marines still feel a lot of shame over not taking him when he tried to join them at the age of 15.
He almost ended up not being aloud to fight because he had trouble keeping up in basic training and kept fainting, they were going to send him to cooking school.
His autobiography is interesting because he gave more credit to his men then his own action.
He is officially the most decorated man in the U.S. military, there was a soldier in vietnam who had more metals, but he didn't have every single metal like Murphy did.
He made 30 some odd movies, but two stand out "Red Badge of Courage"(everyone should have to read that book btw) and "To hell and Back"
An amazing soldier he had a kill count of 240 germans and 6 tanks, who didn't look like your tough grizzled soldier.
Think about this photo, this is after he received his cmh
