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Easy Company of Band of Brothers fame spent time at Clemson
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Easy Company of Band of Brothers fame spent time at Clemson

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Jul 21, 2023, 4:45 PM
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I'm reading Major Richard Winters' book Beyond Band of Brothers right now. I was interested to learn that when qualifying their recruits, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, including Easy Co., decamped to Clemson from Camp Toccoa for rifle and pistol qualifying in the fall of 1942. Camp Toccoa (or Camp Toombs as it was then known) was so new that it had no small arms ranges of its own. They slept in tents nearby (Winters was not specific where). The 506th was an experimental unit. Rather than take in men who had already completed basic and jump school, it took raw recruits who had volunteered for the airborne. I didn't know that Clemson had a rifle range, though should have guessed. Does anyone know where it was located? I assume (and hope) the lead was cleaned up before being put to other uses.

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Re: Easy Company of Band of Brothers fame spent time at Clemson

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Jul 21, 2023, 5:12 PM
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I was on the competition rifle team in '62, but that was shooting Anschutz target .22 rifles and it was indoors (forget which building). I was also in the Pershing Rifles for a short time, but we didn't do any shooting. I'm not aware of an outdoor pistol/rifle range, but there might have been one.

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Jul 21, 2023, 9:03 PM
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That indoor range was in the basement of what is now Wanamaker Hall, I seem to remember.

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