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B.O.B "Currahee" - Camp Toccoa


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B.O.B "Currahee" - Camp Toccoa

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Camp Toccoa was a United States Army paratrooper training camp during World War II five miles west of Toccoa, Georgia. It was first planned in 1938, constructed by the Georgia National Guard and the Works Projects Administration beginning January 17, 1940, and was dedicated December 14, 1940. The facility was initially named Camp General Robert Toombs after a Confederate Civil War General. In 1942 the U.S. Army took over the site. There were very few buildings or facilities there and original personnel were housed in tents. More permanent barracks were built as the first paratroopers started to arrive. The story goes that Colonel Robert Sink, commander of one of the first units to train there, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), thought that it was bad psychology to have young men arrive at Toccoa, travel Route 13 past a casket factory (the Toccoa Casket Company) to learn to jump at Camp "Tombs", so he persuaded the Department of the Army to change the name to Camp Toccoa. Initially, Camp Toccoa used the Toccoa municipal airport for jump training, but due to a transport accident, it was abandoned for having too short a runway for safe C-39 and C-47 operations. All further jump training occurred at Fort Benning, Georgia. Camp Toccoa also lacked a rifle range, so airborne trainees would march thirty miles to Clemson Agricultural College, a military school in South Carolina, to practice on the college's shooting range. The most prominent local landmark is Currahee Mountain. Paratroopers in training ran from the camp up the mountain and back, memorialized in the HBO series, Band of Brothers, with the shout "three miles up, three miles down." Members of the 506th refer to themselves as "Currahees", derived from the Cherokee word gurahiyi, which may mean "standing alone". The crest is surmounted by a group of telecommunications towers.

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