![]() Breakfast partureĭarkness, trying to keep cards and dice from flying or tumbling away across the heaving deck, betting fortunes in poker and craps games: "Sleep in your trousers, shirt and gas mask. Twenty-four-year-old Sergeant Roy Stevens, a tried to get Well as to his hardscrabble neighborhood back in Bedford, Since leaving home, he had become a first-rate soldier, Side of the tracks in Bedford, poor even by the With finely chiseled features and a superb physique, had Had been chosen from among the 15,000 GIsīelow decks, twenty-five-year-old Sergeant Frank Draper Jr. Steamed steadily across the English Channel. ![]() Cota was Assistant Division Commander of the 29th. Thurman, Anthony M., Sergeant Watson, James White,Ĭompanies A, C, and F were by Colonel CharlesĬommanded by Major General Charles H. Reynolds, John E, Private First Class Rosazza, Marsico, Robert (Tony) E., Sergeant Mitchell, Jack, Sergeant Huddleston, Allen, Sergeant Lancaster, James, Private First Class Hoback, Bedford T, Private Hoback, Raymond Gillaspie, Nicholas N., Private First Class Robin, and son, Felix, once again toleratedĪbsence and obsession and brought untold the Loerch family, and of course port.īroughman, Cedric C, Technician Carter, Wallace R., Private First Class Pigeon of thank him and his team enough agent, Have been exceptionally lucky to have had such an astute,Īnd enthusiastic editor as Robert L. Williams College, Loyola Marymount Library in California, the Imperial Sumpter, Kevan Elsby, Judy Monroe, George Gillam, Peter Viemeister, Jack Mitchell, Earl and Elva Stewart, Billy Parker,īeulah Witt, Ellen Quarles, David Draper, Michael Zimmerman, Sibyle Kieth Coleman, Gary Bedingfield, Laura Burnette, Octavia White Hooper, the outstandingly patient Roy and Helen Stevens, Ray Nance, Eleanor Yowell, Elaine Cockes, Allen Huddleston, the marvelously hospitable Pride Wandrei andĮdwards of the Eisenhower Center, Bettie Wilkes Jimmy Kilborne of the Staunton Armory, Russell Bob Slaughter, Lucille Hoback Boggess, Ellen A. ![]() Marcia Apperson, Mitch Yockelson of the National Archives, Over the last three years: Eloise Rogers, Johnny Powers, Earl Boyd Wilson, Dorothy With information and photographs, and in someĬases enduring several hours of interviews and many, For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, Center, Cambridge,ĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS This book could not have been written without the help and cooperation ofĬhanting town below the Peaks of Otter, kindness. Press books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the U.S.īy corporations, institutions, and other organizations. The Perseus Books Group available from the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America.Ĭataloging-in-Publication data for this book First Mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ![]() System, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, Views with survivors and relatives, as well as on diariesīedford Boys One American Town's Ultimate Normandy-and the small town they called home On JuneĬampaign, three more sons of Bedford died of The poignant story of the boys from Bedford who landed on the beaches of ONE AMERICAN TOWN'S ULTIMATE D-DAY SACRIFICE ![]()
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