The photo colorized only shows less than half of his medals. Audie received every military award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor (highest personal recognition conferred by the U.S.) at age 19 for single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in Jan 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition. He became a Hollywood star after the war. and perished in a plane crash in 1971.
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