My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
The Bedford Boys Who Paid the Ultimate Price at D-Day-- Part 5: White, Wright, Yopp
SSgt. GORDON H. WHITE JR. Birth: 31 December 1921 Death: 6 June 1944, Burial: Forest Baptist Church, Bedford, Virginia.
SSgt. ELMERE P. WRIGHT Birth: Birth 1915 Death: 6 June 1944 Buried: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, France
Sgt. GRANT C. YOPP Birth: 27 May 1923 Death: 6 June 1944 Buried: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, France.
A Heavy Price to Pay for Bedford, Virginia. --GreGen
Labels:
Bedford Boys,
Bedford Virginia,
casualties,
D-Day,
killed,
Normandy,
Virginia
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