SRManuel,
Thank you for posting about this brave veteran’s passing. He was a member of Company A, 116th Inf, 29th Inf Div’s that was in the initial wave of the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach. He was a survivor of the ill-fated Company A, often referred to as “The Bedford Boys.” 19 members of Company A died that morning and nearly all of them from the small town of Bedford, VA, as they were in a National Guard unit.
I read the Book, The Bedford Boys.....really enjoyed it.
Until last year at the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings, I had no idea that anyone from that company was still alive...