A Bible carried by Raymond Hoback, one of Bedford County’s soldiers who died storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is now a cherished piece of history in the National D-Day Memorial’s artifact collection.
In the summer of 1944, Macie and John Hoback, who lived on a farm outside Bedford, Va., were in mourning.
Two of their sons, Raymond, 24, and Bedford, 30, had been killed during the D-Day invasion of.
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