2009 Feature Documentary Runner-Up Bedford: The Town They Left Behind
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February 8, 2011 by GI Film Festival in
On June 6, 1944, members of a National Guard unit comprised largely of volunteers from Bedford , Virginia , joined hundreds and hundreds of fellow soldiers in the terrible assault on Normandy ’s Omaha Beach . Of 35 men from Bedford , 19 died in the opening moments of what would come to be known as D-Day. On a per capita basis, Bedford lost more soldiers that day than anyplace else in the United States
Elliot Berlin & Joe Fab
Producer
Elliot Berlin & Joe Fab
Director and Writer
Runtime: 75 min
