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Texas, he served in nine World War II campaigns, receiving the

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of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France. After

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based on his war memoirs. During the Korean War, Murphy was

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on numerous songs between 1962 and 1970. He suffered from what

in a mid-air collision between two helicopters in

would today be termed posttraumatic stress disorder, and was

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plagued by money problems in the last few years of his life, but

The Iraqi government reports that the pre-Islamic

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cities of Hatra and Nimrud have been destroyed by

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