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The Bedford boys : one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice / Alex Kershaw.
- Title
- The Bedford boys : one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice / Alex Kershaw.
- Author
- Kershaw, Alex.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | D756.5.N6 K47 2003g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 274, [34] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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." "Here for the first time is the intimate true story of these young men, their friends, and their families - 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, The Bedford Boys focuses on some 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0306811677
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries