The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw Read Free Book Online

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    Hal Baumgarten, left, and medic Cecil Breeden at the Colleville American Cemetery above Omaha Beach, 1988. Breeden saved many lives and treated Baumgarten and several Bedford boys on D-Day. Hal Baumgarten.

    Fifty years later. Roy Stevens, center, returns to where his twin brother and so many friends died on Omaha Beach. Photograph taken on June 6, 1994. Virginia Historical Association.
    Bob Slaughter with President George W. Bush at the dedication of the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, June 6, 2001. Bob Slaughter.

    They died that others might be free. The grave of John B. Schenk, one of eleven Bedford boys resting in peace at the Colleville American Cemetery in France. John Snowdon.

THE BEDFORD BOYS
AND D-DAY
    Twenty-two Bedford Boys were killed in the Normandy campaign :
Leslie Abbott
Wallace Carter
John Clifton
John Dean
Frank Draper Jr.
Taylor Fellers
Charles Fizer
Nicholas Gillaspie
Bedford Hoback
Raymond Hoback
Clifton Lee
Earl Parker
Joseph Parker
Jack Powers
Weldon Rosazza
John Reynolds
John Schenk
Ray Stevens
Gordon White
John Wilkes
Elmere Wright
Grant Yopp
    Six Bedford Boys landed on D-Day and survived :
Robert Goode
James Lancaster
Robert (Tony) Marsico
Elisha (Ray) Nance
Glenwood (Dickie) Overstreet
Anthony Thurman
    Five Bedford Boys missed landing on D-Day when their landing craft sank, but landed days later :
Robert Edwards
Charles Fizer
Clyde Powers
Roy Stevens
Harold Wilkes
    Four Bedford Boys served in support capacity and did not land on D-Day :
Earl Newcomb
Jack Mitchell
George Crouch
Cedric Broughman
    The entire 116th Infantry Regiment suffered 797 casualties, including 375 killed or missing in action. The 116th received a Distinguished Unit Citation for “extraordinary heroism and outstanding performance of duty in action in the initial assault on the northern coast of Normandy, France.”

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