The Bedford BoysThe Bedford Boys
One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
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Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, , Available .On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the sands of Normandy. Later that day, two more soldiers from the same small town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-one sons of Bedford killed--no other town in America suffered a greater one-day loss. It is a story that one cannot easily forget--and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. It was, and still is, Bedford's longest day.The Bedford Boys is the intimate true story of these young men and their friends and families in Bedford. It portrays a neighborhood of soldiers before and during the war--from the girlfriends they left behind to the buddies they made in basic training, from anxious barracks in England to the bloody beaches of Normandy. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives as well as on diaries and letters, Alex Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II--the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
On June 6, 1944, landing craft dropped the boys from Bedford, Virginia - population 3,000 - in the shallow water off Normandy's Omaha Beach, part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches on D-Day. Within minutes nineteen were dead. No other town in American suffered a greater one-day loss. Later in the campaign, three more sons of Bedford died of gunshot wounds.
An intimate account based on interviews, letters, and diaries traces the stories of twenty-one young men from Bedford, Virginia, who died on D-Day in Normany, noting how their lives and deaths continue to impact their families and their community. 75,000 first printing.
An account based on interviews, letters, and diaries traces the stories of twenty-one young men from Bedford, Virginia, who died on D-Day, noting how their lives and deaths continue to impact their families and their community.
The poignant story of twenty-one boys who died on the beaches of Normandy and the small town they called home
On June 6, 1944, landing craft dropped the boys from Bedford, Virginia - population 3,000 - in the shallow water off Normandy's Omaha Beach, part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches on D-Day. Within minutes nineteen were dead. No other town in American suffered a greater one-day loss. Later in the campaign, three more sons of Bedford died of gunshot wounds.
An intimate account based on interviews, letters, and diaries traces the stories of twenty-one young men from Bedford, Virginia, who died on D-Day in Normany, noting how their lives and deaths continue to impact their families and their community. 75,000 first printing.
An account based on interviews, letters, and diaries traces the stories of twenty-one young men from Bedford, Virginia, who died on D-Day, noting how their lives and deaths continue to impact their families and their community.
The poignant story of twenty-one boys who died on the beaches of Normandy and the small town they called home
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo ; London : Eurospan, 2003.
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