The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
by Alex Kershaw
Paperback
328 Pages
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 that the families of Bedford will never forget.
A true story based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Bedford Boys, focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the more poignant stories of World War II - the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
