Marie McDermottroe

Hibernia: Irish Eye On Hollywood

By Tom Deignan

Summer 2021

September 10, 2021 by

Netflix is Continuing to Rely on Irish to Lure Viewers Among the streaming giant’s latest offerings is a true-crime documentary called Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, which revisits the 1996 death of a French woman who’d been staying at her Irish vacation home. This is just the latest Netflix documentary with strong Irish links. There is also Surviving Death, an exploration … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye On Hollywood

May 30, 1971

Murphy wearing the U.S. Army khaki "Class A" uniform with full-size medals, 1948. — Murphy wearing the U.S. Army khaki “Class A” uniform with full-size medals, 1948.

Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, died tragically on this day in a plane crash. He was 46. Audie, one of 9 children, was born on June 20, 1924, near the town of Kingston, Texas. “We were share-crop farmers,” he wrote. “And to say that the family was poor would be an understatement. Poverty dogged our every step.” When he was 18, Audie enlisted in the army. The slight, freckle-faced kid was turned down by the Marines and the paratroopers before the infantry took him. He went on to earn 21 medals for bravery and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery.

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