Now he was on his way to France. Here, in a period of less than five months, Audie Murphy would be wounded three times, be promoted to an officer on the battlefield, and win the United States’s highest decorations for valor, one of them, the Silver Star, twice. In the history of the U.S. Army, no one had ever matched that record, nor in the forty years since then has anyone come close. Murphy was heading straight for the history books.
