June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day.
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Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget.
Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds.
They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy.
June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day