101st / Camp Tocooa trivia
I went to school / grew up not far from Curahee mountain (and spent camping trips at the top of the mountain). During my capstone Thesis class for history, my professor mentioned an anecdote from his Graduate thesis class, wherein a student was doing a paper on the 101st and Toccoa, and discovered that they were mightily unpopular with the older Toccoans, esp. the baptist preachers, who would rant and rave about their liquor loving ways and their foul mouths.
This suprised my professor, who asked his father, who, like most of that generation, was in the military during the war. He said that everyone had a mouth like a toilet.
So yeah, I think the whole "Gee whiz" and "golly" crap was just that.