May 28, 1971: The Day The Warrior Died

On this day, 55 years ago, an Aero Commander 680 Super flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Martinsville, Virginia collided with the top of Brush Mountain (near Roanoke, Virginia) due to poor visibility. The pilot and five passengers were killed. One of them was Audie Murphy, war hero and former movie star.

I feel like Sabaton’s song about Audie is not their strongest work, but there’s a shortage of good clips of him on YouTube, so we’ll go with Sabaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBz7MX2bLcM

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