506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

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United States Army

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Description

The 506th Parachute Infantry was activated on 20 July 1942. Prior to this date a small cadre of officers and non-commissioned officers were quartered in a wall tent area which had been euphoniusly named "Camp Toombs". On the shoulders of these officers and men rested the responsibility of forming and training the great regiment which was later to make the camp's new name a famous one -- "Toccoa".

Toccoa was the heat of the Georgia summer and fifty torturous minutes three days a week, pounding six miles up and down a mountain. Toccoa was murderous twenty mile forced marches done at 130 per minute. Toccoa was where men and officers learned how to take and give orders. But above all Toccoa was the crucible which forged the spirit of this regiment, and where men discovered they could go much further and do much much more than they ever imagined.

Publication Date

1945

Keywords

United States Army, World War 1939-1945, Parachute troops, Regimental histories, 506th Infantry Division

Disciplines

Military History

Recommended Citation

United States Army, "506th Parachute Infantry Regiment" (1945). Regimental Histories. 47.
https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/47