The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw

The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

Alex Kershaw

328 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
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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 part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit th...

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