The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

The story of nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia—population just 3,000 in 1944—who died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. Now with a new introduction from Alex Kershaw.

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. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost—it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that...