The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice (39 page)

Quarles, Ellen
Queen Alexandras Hospital

Race riots
Ramcke, General
Rangers
Rathbone, Basil
Rationing
Red Army
Reichert, Joseph
Reynolds, John
     in England
     and Omaha Beach, landing on

Reynolds, Willie
Rizzuto, Phil

Roach, George
     and Omaha Beach, landing on

     at Slapton Sands
Roanoke, Virginia
Roberts, Pam
Robinson, Noel
Rogers, Eloise
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin
     and declaration of war
     and New Deal
     and Office of Production
          Management
     and Operation Overlord
     
and pledge of neutrality
     and plot cultivation
     and radio address
     and “Roosevelt’s Tree Army”
     and United Mine Workers
“Roosevelt’s Tree Army”
Rosazza, Calisto
Rosazza, Weldon
Rothenberg, Sam
Royce, Peter
Rubatex
Rucker, Peter

Ruff, Sam
Ruffing, Red
Russell, John
Russia, and attack on Poland
Russians

Sales, Bob
     after D-Day
     and D-Day memorial
     in England
     on HMS Queen Mary
     and invasion plan
     and Omaha Beach, battle for

Salisbury

Samuel, Bernard
“Sausages,” . See also Containment
          camp
Saving Private Ryan
Saxtein, Morris
Schenk, George
Schenk, Ivylyn

     and casualties, news of
     and D-Day
Schenk, John

     in containment camp
     in England
     on HMS Empire Javelin
     on HMS Queen Mary
     and Omaha Beach, approach to
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
     at Slapton Sands
Schenk, Rosa
Schenk family
     and casualties, news of
     and D-Day
Schofield Barracks
Schulz, Charles M.
Scott, Morris
Scott, Murphy
“Screaming Eagles,”
Second wave
Selective service bill
Self-inflicted wounds (SIWs)
Setterich
SHAEF
Shapiro, Sam
Shea, Jack

Short Guide to Britain, A
Shoulder patches
Shrader, Viola
Sicily
Singapore
SIWs. See Self-inflicted wounds

Slapton Sands
Slaughter, Bob
     after D-Day
     in containment camp
     and D-Day memorial

     in England
     on HMS Queen Mary
     and invasion plan
     and Omaha Beach, battle for

Smith, Mack
Somme
Sours, John
Soviet Union
Spaden
Special Engineer Task Force
Spielberg, Steven
St. Lô
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Cardinals
Stagg, James
Stalin, Joseph
Stars and Stripes
Stevens, Harold
Stevens, Helen
Stevens, Martha Jane
Stevens, Ray

     in England
     on HMS Empire Javelin

     on HMS Queen Mary
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
Stevens, Roy

     after D-Day

     in containment camp
     and D-Day memorial
     in England

     on HMS Empire Javelin

     on HMS Queen Mary

     and invasion plan
     and Omaha Beach, approach to

     and Omaha Beach, battle for

     and Omaha Beach, return to
     and Operation Tiger
     and return home
     at Slapton Sands
Stevens family
Stewart, Anna Mae
     after the war
     and casualties, news of
Strong, Kenneth
“Stukas on Wheels,”
“Suicide Wave,”
Sulphur Springs
Sumpter, Octavia White

Teass, Elizabeth

Tedder, Arthur
Textile industry
Textile Workers Union
Thaxton, Emma
Thaxton, Jane
Thomas, Frank
3206th Quartermaster Service
          Company
Thurman, Anthony
Tidworth Barracks
Tidworth House
Transportation Corps
Tunisia
“Twenty Committee, The”
“29, Let’s Go!”
“29 Let’s Go!”
29th Division

United Mine Workers
United States Army Medical Department

U.S. Army bases, discipline at
U.S. Army Special Services Division
U.S. battleships, at Pearl Harbor, bombing of

U.S. Navy, and Pearl Harbor, bombing of

USS Arkansas
USS Charles Carroll
USSMcCook
USS Texas
Utah Beach

Valance, Thomas
     in containment camp
     in England
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
     and Omaha Beach, landing on

V Corps
V-E Day
Verrier, Mary
Veterans
Victor, Arthur
ViervillesurMer
Virginia Military Institute
Vixen Tor
V-J Day
Volunteers, women as
Von Manstein, Erich
Von Rundstedt, Editha
Von Rundstedt, Gerd

Walker, Robert
Wall Street, and D-Day
Wall Street crash
War Bonds
Ware, Robert
Warner, John W
Wartime production,

Washington, George
Watson, Alpha
Wellington, General
Western Union telegrams, and casualties

Weymouth, England
White, Gordon Henry, Jr.

White, Gordon Henry, Sr
White, Rose
Wilkes, Bettie (later Bettie Wilkes
          Hooper)

     after the war
     and casualties, news of,

     and D-Day
     See also Hooper, Bettie Wilkes
Wilkes, Harold
     after D-Day
     in containment camp
     on HMS Empire Javelin
     and Omaha Beach, approach to

     and Omaha Beach, battle for
Wilkes, John

     in containment camp
     in England
     on HMS Empire Javelin
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
     and Omaha Beach, landing on
     at Slapton Sands
Wilkes, Leo D.
Wilkes family

Williams, Bill
Winchell, Walter
Wingfield, Pride
     and D-Day memorial
     in England
     and return home
Wingfield, Rebecca
Wingfield family
Witt, Beulah
Witt, Henry G.
Women, as volunteers
Woodford, Bertie
     and casualties, news of
Woolacombe
Work programs
World War I
World War II
Wright, Dick
Wright, Elmere
     and baseball
     in containment camp
     and Omaha Beach, battle for
Wright, William

Yopp, Elsie
Yopp, Grant
     in containment camp
     in England
     on HMS Queen Mary
Yopp, Herbert
Yowell, Eleanor
Yowell, Pinky

Zappacosta, Ettore
Zimmerman, Charlie