On June 2, 1945, Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army, presented the 19-year-old Murphy with the Medal of Honor for his actions outside of Holtzwihr. By the war's end ...
Although Murphy fought a long and agonizing war before receiving his Medal of Honor, one of his comrades-in-arms was destined for a much shorter, though no less violent, tour of duty. As Murphy ...
As the Germans launched their last, desperate offensive on the Western Front in mid-1918, a relatively new United States Army unit, the 3rd Infantry Division, would earn the nickname "Rock of the ...