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1 " The Stevens brothers had shared everything except women since they could remember: poker winnings, uniform, Red Cross parcels, news from home, and their most intimate fears and hopes. But in a few hours' time, after years of being inseparable, they would not share the same landing craft bound for the beaches of northern France. For the first time since they had joined the National Guard, a week apart in 1938, they would not be side by side. They would not face their greatest test together. They would arrive on Omaha Beach in different boats. "
― Alex Kershaw , The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
2 " Fellers had studied the Allied intelligence and countless aerial shots and concluded that Company A was being sent to face certain slaughter. Fellers and Nance both looked out to sea. "We stood there awhile," recalled Nance. "We didn't say a word, not a single word to each other. I guess we'd said it all.An anti-aircraft gun broke the silence, tracer bullets spitting through the sky, and then a searchlight caught the blaze of an exploding plane. "That brought it home to me," recalled Nance. "This thing is real. It's not an exercise. "
