Audie Murphy Rejected Then Most Decorated

Audie Murphy was rejected by every branch including the Marines for being 5 foot 5 and 112 pounds. He was accepted by the infantry and became the most decorated American soldier of WWII. He received the Medal of Honor at Holtzwihr, France on January 26, 1945 for single-handedly defending a position atop a burning tank destroyer with a .50 caliber machine gun while wounded, fighting off a German assault for an hour.