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Audie Murphy Was an Idol of the Silver Screen. That Came After He Was the Most-Decorated American Hero of World War II

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By Jeff MacGregor 
| Smithsonian Magazine
He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he accomplished in his too-short life Every story about Audie Murphy is a story about America. On January 26, 1945, just outside Holtzwihr, in northeastern France, Army Second Lieutenant Audie Murphy climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and single-handedly held off six tanks and 250 attacking Germans.
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How Tyrus Wong Spent 106 Years Making the World More Beautiful

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By Jeff MacGregor 
| Smithsonian Magazine
The Chinese American artist left a breathtaking legacy that ranged from fine art to Disney movies to Christmas cards Tyrus Wong arrived in San Francisco from China in 1920 as a 10-year-old who loved calligraphy. By the end of the next decade, he was working for Disney, on his way to becoming one of America’s greatest immigrant success stories.
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In His Garage, an Untrained Artist Created a Work of Sublime Divinity

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By Jeff MacGregor 
| Smithsonian Magazine
How deep faith created one of the loveliest—and most curious—sacred objects in the Smithsonian collections For some 14 years he labored in solitude. Lovingly. Obsessively. Every night after work, in a rented garage on 7th Street NW in Washington, D.C., James Hampton, a World War II veteran and janitor for the General Services Administration with no artistic training, methodically built what he came to call The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.
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