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The Bedford Boys One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw | 8.05 MB
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Title: The Bedford Boys
Author: Alex Kershaw
Year: 2003
Description:
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...
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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...
DOWNLOAD:
https://uploadgig.com/file/download/daEfF688126ece05/The_Bedford_Boys__One_American_Towns_Ultimate_D-Day_Sacrifice_by_Alex_Kershaw_.rar
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