Bedford, Va., Picked for D-Day Monument
Associated Press
BEDFORD, Va. —
A foundation studying sites for a national D-day monument has picked Bedford, which proportionally lost the most men of any U.S. community during the invasion.
The National D-day Memorial Foundation announced its decision Friday.
Bedford, which had 3,200 residents in 1944, lost 23 of its 35 soldiers in Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment in the Normandy invasion. Nineteen died in the first 15 minutes. Bedford now has 6,000 people.
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