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As a teenager Audie Murphy left his home in Texas to join in the fight against the Nazis. By the end of the war, he had fought in the bloody battle of Anzio, helped liberate Rome, marched his way across France, repelled German counterattacks in Alsace, before finishing in Germany. He was wounded three times, killed over two hundred enemies, and won every medal for valor that the United States had to offer.
Charles Whiting charts Murphy's journey...
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Describes how the Germans prepared for the Battle of the Bulge by amassing thousands of troops in the Ardennes Forest, an area the Americans viewed as a safe place to send inexperienced troops, and discusses how they gathered information from the US troops there to help them plan their course of action.