I Like an Honest Car Salesman

Photo taken March 1941 in Bedford, Virginia (from Shorpy).   Three years later, on June 6, 1944, nineteen young men from Bedford, a town of 4,000, would die on Omaha Beach.  All were in  Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division.  Thirty seven Bedford men served in Company A (a 20th Bedford man died elsewhere on the invasion beach that day).  The enormity of the loss led the National D-Day Memorial to be located in the town.  The last survivor of the Beford Boys passed in 2009.