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100 1 $aKershaw, Alex.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97084867
245 14 $aThe Bedford boys :$bone American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice /$cAlex Kershaw.
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bDa Capo Press,$c2003.
300 $axii, 274 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aGroup portrait on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical footnotes and index.
505 00 $tThe Bedford Boys -- $g1.$tD-Day, H-360 -- $g2.$tGoing to War -- $g3.$tMoving Out -- $g4.$tCruel Seas -- $g5.$tEngland's Own -- $g6.$t"29, Let's Go!" -- $g7.$tSlapton Sands -- $g8.$tThe Sausages -- $g9.$tThe Empire Javelin -- $g10.$tThe First Wave -- $g11.$tDog Beach -- $g12.$t"Medic!" -- $g13.$tEvery Man Was a Hero -- $g14.$tBedford's Longest Day -- $g15.$tBocage -- $g16.$tThe Longest Wait -- $g17.$tHis Deep Regret -- $g18.$tComing Home -- $g19.$tMemorial -- $tThe Bedford Boys and D-Day.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aOperation Neptune.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095003
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bInfantry Regiment, 116th.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88237688
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zFrance$zNormandy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148319
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zVirginia$zBedford.
651 0 $aBedford (Va.)$xHistory.
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