Houston Chronicle June 3, 1945 Texas Lieutenant Is One of Two Most Decorated Men in U.S. Army Audie Murphy, 20 of Will Use Back Doors Farmersville Has Because He Shuns Won Them All This Hero Stuff By Associated Press and southern France. As Patch pinned on the With United States Third Di- medal he said: vision in Austria, June 2 – “I wonder if you are as nerv- Double honors were conferred ous as I am.!” Saturday on 20-year-old Lt. “Yes sir: I’m afraid I am,” Audie Murphy of Farmersville Murphy replied. and Greenville, Texas Murphy was the twenty-ninth Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, man in the division to win the commanding the Seventh Army, Congressional Medal of Honor. presented the young lieutenant with the Congressional Medal of Young Murphy is going home Honor for valor, and then to to Texas soon, and says he will Murphy’s astonishment took the LT AUDIE MURPHY use the back doors “because I Legion of Merit from the pile don’t go for this hero stuff. His of decorations and pinned that decorations for bravery, with sister, Corrine Burns, lives in on the young Texan. the entire division turning out Farmersville. for dress parade. Besides half a dozen generals and other high ranking officers, Murphy’s Legion of Merit tied nine senators who had just land- him with Capt. Maurice Britt of ed at the Salzburg airport on a Arkansas as the most decorated jaunt to Hitler’s retreat at man in the United States Army Berchtesgaden stood on the re- The Legion of Merit was award- viewing stand and each shook ed him for continued bravery Murphy’s hand. in volunteering for dangerous missions between January 22, Five other members of the 1944, and February 18, 1945 Third Division also received during fighting at Anzio, Rome Document provided by Stan Smith, Editor (Ret.), The Audie Murphy National Fan Club .