About Audie Murphy, a small window into his war persona is found in Guns of Fort Petticoat. It’s a movie where he was stranded in a mission church with 20 women. He trains and organizes them into defending against an Apache attack.
Ignore that it’s women and watch him lead. Someone praying loudly when silence was critical, cowards, unexpected bravery, competence where you didn’t think to see it, hardness when a popular woman gets killed, keeping the discipline going.
It was filmed 12 years after his actions in combat. There are times in that film that you get a hint of what his mentality and leadership in a fight was like.
Unexpected, but watch it and see if you don’t see it too.
There's some great dialog! When the broken down wagon rolls into the mission, the opera singer says...
"And the first thing thing I wish to make clear is that I'm not with this...this...uh...uh..."
"...creature?"
"Thank you"
The expressions are priceless!
Here is Audie Murphy’s TV western series.
Whispering Smith
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_zO7cYdYLBR4dEmvpNoYtu407scYngVn