AUDIE MURPHY

Near Holtzwihr, Colmar Pocket, Northeastern France • January 26, 1945 On this date in 1945 U.S. Army Second Lt. Audie Murphy, age 20, com­manded an infan­try com­pany when it came under attack from 200 German infan­try­men and a half-dozen Mark VI Tiger tanks of the German Nineteenth Army on the out­skirts of Holtz­wihr (now part of Porte-du-Ried), a village…

Near Holtzwihr, Colmar Area, Northeastern France · January 26, 1945 On this date in 1945 U.S. Army Second Lt. Audie Murphy, age 20, com­manded an infan­try com­pany when it came under attack from 200 German infan­try­men and a half-dozen Mark VI Tiger tanks on the out­skirts of Holtz­wihr (now part of Porte-du-Ried), a village near Colmar on the…