506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Item sets
- World War II Regimental Histories
- Title
- 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not indicated] : [Publisher not indicated], 194?]
- Date
- 1945
- 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.
- Subject
- United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th--History
- United States. Army--Parachute troops
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories
- Format
- 132 unnumbered pages : illustrations , plates, portraits, maps, facsimilies, tables ; 26 x 38 cm
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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