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Currahee Mountain is a mountain located in Stephens County, Georgia, near Toccoa. The name appears to be derived from the Cherokee word ᏊᏩᎯ ( quu-wa-hi ) meaning "stand alone". [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
All paratrooper trainees were required to regularly run up Currahee Mountain (elev. 1,735 feet (529 m)), which overlooked Camp Toccoa. This arduous task was memorialized in the HBO series, Band of Brothers, with the shout "three miles (5 km) up, three miles down."
"Currahee" (Band of Brothers), the first episode of Band of Brothers written about the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy, a non-fiction book by Donald Burgett, about the actions of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Normandy Invasion; Firebase Currahee, a former U.S. Army firebase
The book Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, and was the basis of a successful TV miniseries, aired on HBO. In the film Saving Private Ryan , the titular Pvt. James Francis Ryan of Iowa states he was assigned to Baker Company (B Co.) 1-506th.
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Band of Brothers. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-74322-454-3. Brotherton, Marcus (2009). We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers. New York City: Berkley Caliber. ISBN 978-0-42522-763-3. Brotherton, Marcus (2010). A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories About the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They ...
Band of Brothers is a 2001 American [2] war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. [3] It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. [4]
Taylor was a rifle company commander serving in the Quang Tri and Thua Tien provinces in the 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) of the 101st Airborne, widely heralded from the World War II book and TV miniseries Band of Brothers, with their motto "Currahee," meaning "We stand alone."