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"An aid man, he was wounded in the right shoulder soon after his comrades
had jumped off in a dawn attack 18 March 1945, against the Siegfried Line
at Saarlautern, Germany. He refused to withdraw for treatment and
continued forward, administering first aid under heavy machine gun,
mortar, and artillery fire. When the company ran into a thickly sown
anti-personnel minefield and began to suffer more and more casualties, he
continued to disregard his own wound and unhesitatingly braved the
danger of exploding mines, moving about through heavy fire and helping
the injured until he stepped on a mine which severed one of his feet. In
spite of his grievous wounds, he struggled on with his work, refusing
to be evacuated and crawling from man to man administering to them while
in great pain and bleeding profusely. He was killed by the blast of
another mine which he had dragged himself across in an effort to reach
still another casualty. With indomitable courage, and unquenchable
spirit of self-sacrifice and supreme devotion to duty which made it
possible for him to continue performing his tasks while barely able to
move, Pfc. Murphy saved many of his fellow soldiers at the cost of his
own life."
May you be at peace,
Brian
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