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Funny you should mention that, our museum curator's first encounter with Brig. Danby was when he met him as a cadet at a local tailor and the tailor was agonising over how he was going to hem his jacket so that it wouldn't be lopsided under the weight of the medals!
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Tommy Prince, God rest his soul.
No VC in his medals.
There was a documentary done on Prince which discussed his service in WW2 and Korea as well as his demise after a post service addiction to alcoholism. It was quite sad. It featured his son as well as an officer who I knew who had served with him in Korea.
You are correct, in the history section you can find the plaque pictured above on the wall.
America's finest:
I guess he was a lefty ... it is interesting that the pistols shown are all revolvers; I have known another person who spent a considerable amount of time in action during WWll with the infantry and who was issued both revolvers and self loaders and had an expressed preference for revolvers...
Huh, reading through some more of Audie Murphy's quotes... Quite the philosopher:
"In 1948, I returned to France at the invitation of French Government. It was still a war-ravaged country ... but this time there was something different. It wasn't the absence of fighting, nor the silence of the big guns, nor the disappearance of uniforms and chow lines ... I didn't know what it was until one morning when I was taken to the grounds of a small French school. The children had been assembled in the play yard. They were grouped close together and arranged in wobbly little rows, their dark heads bobbing around like flower buds on long stems. One of the teachers rapped for silence. The kids quieted immediately and turned their eyes towards her. Their Faces were scrubbed and bright in the sunshine. The teacher raised her arms, and for a moment, there was no sound ... Then the teacher brought her arms down and the kids began to sing ... I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again. A people had recovered their independence and their children were grateful. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. America, at that moment, never meant more to me ... The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me."
Nice collection of his quotes:
http://www.audiemurphy.com/documents/doc050/QuotesOfAudieMurphy.pdf
"In 1948, I returned to France at the invitation of French Government. It was still a war-ravaged country ... but this time there was something different. It wasn't the absence of fighting, nor the silence of the big guns, nor the disappearance of uniforms and chow lines ... I didn't know what it was until one morning when I was taken to the grounds of a small French school. The children had been assembled in the play yard. They were grouped close together and arranged in wobbly little rows, their dark heads bobbing around like flower buds on long stems. One of the teachers rapped for silence. The kids quieted immediately and turned their eyes towards her. Their Faces were scrubbed and bright in the sunshine. The teacher raised her arms, and for a moment, there was no sound ... Then the teacher brought her arms down and the kids began to sing ... I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again. A people had recovered their independence and their children were grateful. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. America, at that moment, never meant more to me ... The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me."
Nice collection of his quotes:
http://www.audiemurphy.com/documents/doc050/QuotesOfAudieMurphy.pdf
apparently "painkillers" of which it is said that he went "cold turkey" .. other stories (including the one about the P38 under his pillow) was that he was very addicted to gambling ... and also liked to carry a Colt Detective Special. ... commissioned from the ranks!!
