"We Were The Best There Ever Was." 
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...
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...
When the Angels Sang on Leyte, Christmas of 1944
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December 25, 1944 It was “a gray morning carved out of gray clay and shadowed by fog.” So pennedT/4 Rodman "Rod" Serling of HQ1-511, a demolitions man who joined the several-miles-long column of bedra...
