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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 23 > Ray Nance, 94, last of WWII’s Bedford Boys

Ray Nance, 94, last of WWII’s Bedford Boys

By Richard Goldstein / The Bulletin
April 23, 2009

Ray Nance, the last survivor of the Bedford Boys, soldiers from the Blue Ridge foothills whose heavy losses at Omaha Beach symbolized the sacrifices of all the Americans who fell at Normandy on D-Day, died Sunday in Bedford, Va. He was 94.

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