The Town Omaha Beach Broke

🥇 At 6:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment hit Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach under direct fire from German positions above Vierville-sur-Mer. Many of the men in those first landing craft came from the same small Virginia community: Bedford.

📜 This video tells the long-form story of the Bedford Boys: the prewar National Guard company, the federal call-up in February 1941, the long training in Britain, the first wave at Omaha, the families waiting in Bedford, and the telegrams that reached Green's Drug Store weeks after the beach was already quiet.

🕰️ The key figures include Bedford and Raymond Hoback, Roy and Ray Stevens, Frank Draper Jr., John Schenk, Taylor Fellers, Elizabeth Teass, Harold Crayton, Lucille Hoback Boggess, Bob Slaughter, and the families who learned in fragments what had happened in minutes.

🌍 The buried part of the story is that the famous number is not as simple as it sounds. National D-Day Memorial records distinguish between the men of Company A killed in the first minutes, those later presumed dead, and another Bedford soldier killed elsewhere on Omaha Beach, bringing Bedford's D-Day fatalities to 20.

🔔 This is the full account of Dog Green, the Western Union counter, Raymond Hoback's Bible, the town's long silence, the National D-Day Memorial dedicated on June 6, 2001, and the question left when one community pays a war's cost in the names of neighbors.

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Видео The Town Omaha Beach Broke канала Story Of Ages