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The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

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June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia–population just 3,000 in 1944–died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were a part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost–this can be a story one can’t easily overlook and one that the families of Bedford will never overlook. The Bedford Boys is the actual and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left in the back of.In keeping with extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, in addition to diaries and letters, Kershaw’s book specializes in several remarkable individuals and families to tell probably the most poignant stories of World War II–the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
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