The Bedford Boys

Cover Art for 9780306817786, The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw
ISBN: 9780306817786
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 18 March, 2008
Format: ePub

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 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-it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. The Bedfo

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