Cottrell’s older brother, John Reynolds, had been killed in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on the coast of France. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTwenty men from Bedford or the surrounding area were killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The decisive World War II invasion took a horrific toll on Bedford, a town of about 4,000 at the time. Green’s Drug Store was where Bedford Boys had hung out as high schoolers and their wives and girlfriends exchanged gossip and news during the war. The couple said one of the Bedford Boys’ nephews recently found a stash of unopened letters his grandmother had sent to her son before she knew he had been killed on D-Day.

Source: thestar May 19, 2019 12:33 UTC