TOCCOA — The decades-old warplane, the kind that dropped American paratroopers behind the beaches of Normandy, is not much to look at. It lies in dirty disrepair in a grassy field in this tiny ...
CAMP TOCCOA, Ga. -- "Three miles up, three miles down!" It was the rallying cry of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, as the Soldiers left Camp Toccoa, Ga., and ran to the top of Currahee Mountain ...
FROM THE 2001 HBO SERIES BAND OF BROTHERS HAS COME TOGETHER NOW TO HONOR THE MEMORIES OF THE SERVICE MEMBERS THEY PORTRAYED. AND IT’S ALL HAPPENING AT AN HISTORIC CAMP IN TOCCOA, GEORGIA. CARLOS ...
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- The Filthy Thirteen -- a nickname given to the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in World ...
The men who trained at Georgia’s Camp Toccoa — a “little camp outside a little town far off the beaten path” — helped turn the tide of World War II. They were a new kind of soldier, the paratrooper, ...