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 ...
With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would commemorate the D-Day landings by training at Camp Toccoa and then jumping into ...
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 ...
There's little left of the original Camp Toccoa near the Currahee Mountain in Georgia. But what remains is hallowed ground for Army paratroopers. One of several training sites for paratroopers ...
TOCCOA, Ga. - Actor Tom Hanks has donated $25,000 to Camp Toccoa at Currahee Inc. for its ambitious restoration of the World War II paratrooper training camp. He joins retired Gen. David Petreaus as ...
Al Camp was blinded by mortar blasts in the Korean War in the early 1950s. Upon returning to his home in Toccoa, the blind veteran began tuning pianos for an income. And for decades he emptied his ...
A little-known World War II training camp in the North Georgia mountains was mentioned Thursday by French President Emmanuel Macron in his Normandy speech for the anniversary of D-Day. Macron said the ...