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Camp Toccoa & the 511th PIR
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With America officially at war, in 1942 the country's military leadership began to accelerate the training of their still very new parachute troops. And Camp Toccoa, Georgia, now made famous by the HB...
The 511th PIR on New Guinea: Part 1
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I've received several inquiries lately about what Colonel Orin D. "Hard Rock" Haugen's 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (and the 11th Airborne Division as a whole) did while they were stationed at Do...
Manarawat: The 11th Airborne's Plateau in the Pacific During World War II
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PODCAST EPISODE TEXT: When the 11th Airborne reached Leyte Harbor on November 18, 1944, the Angels were told to disembark quickly because Japanese submarines and kamikaze aircraft were still operating...
The Rat's Ass Charge - The Breakout of Leyte
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The Rat's Ass Charge is the story of one of those incredible engagements from World War II, one effected by a small, understrength and under-supported parachute companies, that equals anything that ha...
