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Document 260555

AUDIE MURPHY
His lieutenant's hat, a movie lobby card and signed document.
Comprises: (1) Dark green officer's hat. The wool hat with black and gold piping bears a silver first lieutenant's bar pinned at front. When flattened, the hat measures 10x5. Fine condition. With color copy (on 8½x11 sheet) of the original signed card indicating that "Lt. Audie Murphy, U.S.A." donated this hat to the "Navy Relief Fund Auction". These auctions, held for the benefit of Navy veterans, were first held in 1944. Heavily creased. (2) Original unsigned color lobby card, color, 14x11. Battle at Bloody Beach stars Audie Murphy (pictured) as Craig Benson, a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines in WWII. His sole motive is to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years earlier. Lightly creased at lower margin. Lightly soiled and stained. Ink and pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). (3) DS: "Audie/Murphy", 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1969 June 19. In part: "For the purposes of AFTRA, the Sid Gold-Jack Fields Agency must file a copy of your 'Consent of Assignment' of the Sid Gold-Jack Fields Agency contract under Rule 12-B to the single ownership under Jack X Fields, dba Sid Gold-Jack Fields Agency...." Murphy signs in agreement. Lightly creased. Stray ink mark at upper margin. Overall, fine condition. In 1969, the year of this document, Audie Murphy's WWII poem, "Freedom Flies in Your Heart Like an Eagle", was set to music by Scott Turner and published by Music Machine Music as "Dusty Old Helmet". It begins: "Dusty old helmet, rusty old gun./They sit in the corner and wait-/Two souvenirs of the Second World War/That have withstood the time, and the hate." AUDIE MURPHY (1924-1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers in history. He received battlefield promotions while capturing more medals than any other U.S. soldier, including the Congressional Medal of Honor. From his Medal of Honor citation: "2d Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by 6 tanks and waves of infantry...2d Lt. Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective." Following the war, he turned to acting in movies, starring in over 40 films, including the story of his life, To Hell and Back. Murphy, who died in an airplane crash, is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Four items.

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