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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. The regiment's Company E ("Easy Company") was portrayed in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
The trail is currently the venue for the Annual Currahee Challenge, a three-mile (5 km) and six-mile (10 km) race on the mountain that occurs in the fall. [11] The first Saturday of June has a run called the "D-Day Run" held by the Camp Toccoa at Currahee organization. [citation needed]
The regiment was initially formed during World War II at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, in 1942 where it earned its nickname, "Currahees", after the camp's Currahee Mountain. Paratroopers in training ran from Camp Toccoa up Currahee Mountain and back with the shout "three miles up, three miles down!" (5 km up, 5 km down).
The 506th PIR was an experimental airborne regiment created in 1942 to jump from C-47 transport airplanes into hostile territory.. E Company was established at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Herbert Sobel.
Currahee, a corruption of gurahiyi, a Cherokee word possibly meaning "stand alone," may refer to: "Currahee", the motto of the 506th Infantry Regiment , a unit of the 101st Airborne Division Currahee Mountain , a mountain located in Stephens County, Toccoa, Georgia which gave the motto to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
His nickname among his men became "Jumping Johnson." He was a zealot on physical conditioning, for himself and everyone in his regiment, and personally led calisthenics, running and all other physical activities. He set a record for running up Currahee Mountain (which loomed over Camp Toccoa) and challenged anyone in the regiment to beat his time.
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The Currahee Military Museum, located in downtown Toccoa at the original train station where arriving GIs would disembark, is dedicated to the paratroopers of World War II who trained at Camp Toccoa. Camp Toccoa was located just outside the city proper, at the foot of Currahee Mountain , and was formerly known as Camp Toombs.