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Camp Toccoa (formerly Camp Toombs) was a basic training camp for United States Army paratroopers during World War II, located five miles (8 km) west of Toccoa, Georgia. Among the units to train at the camp was the 506th Infantry Regiment .
Toccoa is a city in far Northeast Georgia near the border with South Carolina.It is the county seat of Stephens County, Georgia, United States, [6] [7] located about 50 miles (80 km) from Athens and about 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Atlanta.
The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (517th PRCT) was an airborne, specifically a parachute infantry, regiment of the United States Army that was formed in March 1943 during World War II, training at Camp Toccoa in the mountains of Northeast Georgia.
The Georgia Interscholastic Association (GIA) was a school sports league in Georgia. [2] It was integrated into the GHSA in 1970. [3] The Big 7 Conference included large high schools for African American students in Georgia. The GIA was an expansion of this league that came include county high schools around the state. [4]
Stephens County is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia, in the Piedmont and near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.It is bounded by the Tugaloo River and Lake Hartwell on the east.
All members of the regiment were parachute volunteers, but only a minor fraction were actually qualified jumpers during training at Camp Toccoa, GA. So, when training was over in March 1943, the unit marched to Atlanta, GA, a distance of 105 miles (169 km). They then moved to Fort Benning, GA, to jump qualify all members not previously trained.
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