As his longtime friend David McClure, another American-Irishman from a similar poor, rural background, noted after the war: “I have never seen a man with such fast reflexes. With him, to think is to act. Audie fires on instinct and is deadly accurate.... His vision is fabulous. It must be better than twenty-twenty. He often points out tiny objects to me at night; and even with his help I cannot see them except upon close inspection. His sense of smell is very acute.... During the war he was sent out to capture prisoners for intelligence on night patrols and was able to locate the Germans by
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