Currahee Military Museum

08/31/2026

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08/27/2026

Winder-Barrow JROTC Visits the Currahee Military Museum 🇺🇸

We were delighted to welcome 74 students and leaders from the Winder-Barrow High School JROTC program to Toccoa this week!

Led by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Todd A. Perkins, Senior Army Instructor, this wonderful group began their visit by cooking hot dogs and enjoying lunch together before heading inside to explore our museums.

The students were divided into groups and given tours of all three sections — the Stephens County Historical Museum, the Currahee Military Museum, and the Loden Room.

It was a pleasure to see so many young people taking an interest in our local and military history and learning about the stories preserved here.

Thank you to the Winder-Barrow High School JROTC for spending the day with us! We thoroughly enjoyed having you and hope you’ll visit us again.

🇺🇸 Currahee!

08/27/2026

The Paul Ramsey Family visited the museum today. We want to thank him for his service with the 101st ABN where he deployed to Afghanistan with the 1st BCT Bastogne “No Slack” Battalion. He also served with the 82nd 3BCT 2/505 PIR.

Their children loved the rock candy in the Gift Shop.

08/27/2026

The French Family from England enjoyed the museum today!

08/26/2026

The 22nd Annual Currahee Military Weekend is right around the corner! This year, join us October 1st - 4th where we will be celebrating the Airborne, the Camp Toccoa Paratroopers, the 25th anniversary of HBO's Band of Brothers, and the 250th birthday of America! We are excited to announce the 2026 schedule with some times and events to be announced.

You can also become a 2026 Currahee Military Weekend sponsor! Because of the extremely generous donations of our local businesses and community, almost every event will be free to the public with no registration required! Simply scan the QR code or click on the link below to become a sponsor!

https://toccoahistory.charityproud.org/Donate/?cid=29039

08/24/2026

The 22nd Annual Currahee Military Weekend is right around the corner, and one of our favorite annual events is the Currahee Challenge! Join us Saturday, October 3rd at 8 AM for a 5k or 10k race, complete the same exact run that served as part of the rigorous paratrooper training at Camp Toccoa, and run (or walk) in the footsteps of some of America's bravest heroes.

Are you brave enough to conquer Currahee? Click on the link below to sign up for the 5k or 10k race, or scan the QR code on the flyer below!

https://runsignup.com/Race/GA/Toccoa/CurraheeChallenge5K10K

08/23/2026

We had an amazing time at our first hiSTORYtime!! Join us for our next hiSTORYtime on Saturday, September 12th at 10:30 AM! This program is FREE for children aged 5-10. In honor of National POW/MIA Day in September, this month’s book is "America’s White Table" written by Margot Theis Raven and illustrated by Mike Benny, seen below. After our reading, join us for a fun craft or activity! Want to take the story home? We offer all of our storytime books for purchase in the gift shop!

08/22/2026

Did you know that we are currently in a National Blood Supply Crisis? This is only the second time the American Red Cross has declared an emergency blood shortage, and the Currahee Military Museum wants to do our part to help!

This year is the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, and we are calling on our community to donate blood with us in honor and remembrance of all victims of that tragic day. Join us at the museum in our event hall on September 11th, give blood, and help save lives!

To register, click on the link below and use code SCHS to find our blood drive. You can also scan the QR code on the flyer or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive

08/20/2026

Amazing footage from Operation Market Garden which was 82 years ago.

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08/18/2026

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In 1941, Dick Winters graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with a strong academic record and a future in economics ahead of him. Quiet. Steady. Ordinary.

Three years later, in the pitch-black hours of June 6, 1944, he jumped out of an airplane over Normandy.

His commanding officer never landed — killed when his plane went down. Winters, a First Lieutenant, suddenly found himself in charge of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. No handoff. No briefing. Just command, dropped on him mid-air.

Below, four German 105mm guns were tearing into American troops landing at Utah Beach. Someone had to silence them — now.

Winters gathered about a dozen men. No artillery support. No time to plan. Just a hedgerow, a trench line, and orders: take care of it.

They moved through gunfire, trench by trench, gun by gun. Three guns fell to Winters and his men. Reinforcements from Dog Company finished the fourth.

Because of that single assault, the landing below went easier than almost anyone had dared hope.

His commander recommended him for the Medal of Honor. But the Army allowed only one per division per action — and it went to another officer instead. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second-highest award for valor, handed to him in the middle of a war that wasn't close to over.

He jumped again that September, into Holland. He fought through the brutal winter of the Bulge. By the war's end, he'd led his men all the way to Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria.

Then he came home — and didn't talk about any of it for fifty years.

He ran a business. Raised a family. And starting in the 1990s, he began lecturing cadets at West Point, closing every talk with two words: "Hang tough."

In 2006, his memoir ended not with medals, but with ten principles of leadership — lead from the front, build your team, trust them with real responsibility. He never once called himself a hero in its pages.

He died in 2011, at 92 — the last living commander Easy Company ever had.

He never got the medal his commander thought he deserved. What he left behind lasted far longer: a handful of simple rules that still teach people, decades later, what it actually looks like to lead.