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INDEX
    Abbott, Dickie
Abbott, Leslie
Abbott, W. B.
ACTs. See Assault training centers
Africa
Afrika Korps
Allied Armed Forces Inter-Army
          championship baseball
Amphibia
Amphibious troops
Anderson, Alfred
Andover
Army of the Shenandoah
Assault training centers (ACTs)
Astor, Lady Nancy
Atlantic Wall
Ayers, Lloyd

    Baltimore News-Post
Bandages, rolling,
Bangalore torpedoes
Barnes, John
     after D-Day
     in containment camp
     in England
      on HMS Empire Javelin
     and Omaha Beach , approach to
         and Omaha Beach, battle for
    Baseball
Basham, Melba
    Battle of Britain
Battle of Manassas, reenactment of
    Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Trafalgar
Baumgarten, Hal
     in containment camp
     in England
     on HMS Empire Javelin
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
         at Slapton Sands
Bazookas
Bedford, Virginia
     after the war
     and casualties, news of
     D-Day in
     and memorial letters and poems
         rationing in
Bedford boys
     and invasion, reason chosen for
         memorial to
     and Omaha Beach, return to
     and reburial at home
     and return home
     survivors
     See also Company A
Bedford Bulletin
    Bedford farmers
Bedford Fireman’s Band
Bedford High School
Bedford pool hall
Bee, Bernard
Belding Hemingway
Belgium
Black soldiers
Blitzkrieg attacks
”Blue and Gray, The”
Blue Ridge Mountains
Bocage
Boggess, Lucille Hoback
    Bornstein, Edith
Boutwood, John
Bowman, Ned
Bradley, Omar N.
Bradshaw, Kathleen
Braunton
Breeden, Cecil
    Bremen
Brest
British Expeditionary Force
British Royal Navy
Brooke, Sir Alan
Brookings Institution
Broughman, Cedric
B–29 bomber Enola Gay
Burma
Burnette, Laura
Burrow, Richard
Bush, George W.
Butcher, Harry

    Camp A. P. Hill
Camp Blanding
Camp Kilmer
Canham, Charles
     after D-Day
     in containment camp
         and D-Day memorial
     in England
     and invasion plan
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
    Capa, Robert
Cape Henry
Carder, Harry
Carder Funeral Home
Carney, Eugene
Carter, Wallace
Casualties
         news of, in Bedford
         and Western Union telegrams
    CCC. See Civilian Conservation Corps
Chamberlain, Neville
Chicago Cubs,
Churchill, Winston
    Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    Civil War
Clifton, John
     in England
     and Omaha Beach, approach to
     and Omaha Beach, landing on
    Clifton, Minnie Lee
Coffey, Elaine
    Coleman, Andrew
Coleman, Sibyle Kieth
Coleman family
Colleville sur Mer
Company A
     after D-Day
     after the war
     at Camp Blanding
     at Camp Kilmer
         at Cape Henry
     and casualties
         and combat experience
     in containment camp
     departure of
     in England
     and farewell party
     and first wave
     at Fort Meade
     on HMS Empire Javelin
     induction of
     and Ivybridge
     and medical examinations
     mobilization of
     and moorland
     in North Carolina
     and Omaha Beach, approach to
         and Omaha Beach, battle for
         and Omaha Beach, casualties
         and Omaha Beach, landing on
         and Omaha Beach, return to
     and Operation Overlord, role in
         and