The Marines Called Him Too Weak — Until He Killed 241 Germans and Won Every Medal

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December 7, 1941. A sixteen-year-old kid from Texas, five-foot-five and 112 pounds, walked into a Marine Corps recruiting office the day after Pearl Harbor—and the recruiter laughed in his face. "Come back when you grow up, son." The Army paratroopers rejected him. The Navy turned him away. They all said the same thing: too small, too young, too weak to be a soldier.
Three years later, that same "weak" teenager would stand alone on a burning tank destroyer for over an hour, holding off 250 German soldiers and six Panzer tanks while wounded. His company of forty men, which he'd ordered to retreat to safety, watched in disbelief as their baby-faced lieutenant refused to die. By the time the smoke cleared at Holtzwihr, France, Lieutenant Audie Murphy had earned the Medal of Honor—and it was just one moment in a combat career that would make him the most decorated American soldier in World War II history.

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