Pumpgun, I never knew that Audie Murphy was "destroyed" by "guilt." He was killed in a light plane crash, in 1971, at the age of 47.



I met him once at King's Gun Shop, in Los Angeles, and talked with him for about an hour. We talked of guns and hunting. Movies and WWII were never mentioned. It was a pleasant conversation and he appeared to be quite "normal" to me, and seemed to be very personable and easy going.



He had married a young starlet named Wanda Hendrix, and from what I heard on the Hollywood "grapevine", they fought verbally like cats and dogs... but that's not too unusual in hundreds of thousands of marriages. He got into a bit of trouble once for beating the crap out of a man who was beating his dog nearly to death... but who could stand by and watch some a$$hole beat his dog to death?



I just never heard he was "destroyed" by guilt for having killed so many Germans in WWII.



FWIW. L.W.