Decorations register · Notice Nearby
Official U.S. Army likeness already on the World War II roll
Audie Murphy
1925–1971
First Lieutenant
Company B, 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division; Europe, 1943–1945
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
three awards
Wounds in northeastern France, October 1944, and January 1945 are in the public Army account.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
two awards; first with “V” device
The Army’s published decorations list names two Bronze Star Medals. This page will not invent a third.
Public sources
Audie Leon Murphy’s decorations are a matter of Army record, not of later film. The Medal of Honor citation — General Orders No. 65, 9 August 1945 — covers the morning near Holtzwihr. Separate from that medal, the Army’s published list names two Silver Stars, two Bronze Star Medals (the first with the “V” device), and three Purple Hearts.
This page does not reprint the citation as a short story. It records that the same lieutenant who used a burning tank destroyer as a fighting position had already been wounded and cited before that January morning, and that the Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars are named in the same official account that made the Medal of Honor public.
He is already on the World War II roll. The decorations row there, and this page, use only those awards. We will not add foreign orders or unit emblems as if they were personal U.S. valor medals.
A longer service essay is on the American War Heroes roll. That page does not invent medals. This page does not replace it.
A publisher register — not a verification
This decorations register is publisher-curated from public records — Medal of Honor Society citations, published general orders, and official Army, Navy, and Marine Corps biographies. It is not a verified-veteran product. Notice Nearby does not certify service and does not issue badges.
A paid or unpaid memorial does not enroll anyone here. Checkout, VET50, and a family’s mention of service on an obituary are not applications to this list. We add a name only when a public official source names the decoration.
Claiming a decoration that was not awarded is stolen valor. It is a disrespect to those who earned the medal and, in some cases, a federal crime. This register will not invent an award to fill a page.
These pages are a historical register. They are not Legal Publication, not a newspaper notice, and not proof that a statute was satisfied.