The Life of American Hero and Old Hollywood Icon Audie Murphy

Audie was still too young to enlist legally, but his older sister Corrine helped him bypass the restriction. She obtained an affidavit listing his birth year as 1924, making him appear one year older.

On June 30, 1942, Audie entered the United States Army, likely around his actual seventeenth birthday. The undersized Texas farm boy had finally joined the military, but he still needed to prove that he belonged in combat.