American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 2nd Division

Second Division - Regular Army

 * Second Division - Regular Army
 * 2nd Infantry Division. 10/1917-9/18/1947 Organization Authority Record NARA
 * 2nd Division Insignia
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 21-41.

Training
 Troops Drawn  "...includes troops of the U.S. Marine Corps which are at Quantico or already in France, and units of the Regular Regular Army stationed at Chickamauga Park, El Paso, Gettysburg, Governors Island, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Fts. Benjamin Harrison, Ethan Allen, Myer, Oglethrope, Riley, Sam Houston, and Camps Robinson and Vail..." Land Forces. Order of Battle p. 25


 *  Training Camp in the United States
 * Regular Army and Marine Corps Troops

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France:July 27, 1917-March 5, 1918
 * French Training Area: Bourmont,Valdahon.
 * Date entered line: March 16,1918
 * Days in Quiet (71) and Active (66) Sectors. Total 137
 * Date sailed for home: July 25, 1919

Major Operations

 * Aisne Defensive:
 * Aisne-Marne:
 * St. Mihiel:
 * Blanc Mont (Meuse-Argonne Champagne) Operations of the 2D and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October 1918.
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces Pages

Military Units attached to the Second Division

 * 3rd Infantry Brigade
 * 9th Infantry
 * 23rd Infantry
 * 5th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 4th (Marine)Infantry Brigade
 * 5th Marines
 * 6th Marines
 * 6th Machine Gun Battalion (Marines)
 * 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
 * 12th Field Artillery
 * 15th Field Artillery
 * 17th Field Artillery
 * 2nd Trench Mortar Battery
 * Divisional Troops
 * 4th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 2nd Engineers
 * 1st Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * Trains
 * 2d Train HQ and Military Police
 * 2d Ammuniation Train
 * 2d Supply Train
 * 2d Engineers
 * 2d Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals:1,15,16,23)

Unit Histories

 * Oliver L. Spaulding and John W. Wright. The Second Division,American Expeditionary Force in France,1917-1919. New York, Hillman, 1937.
 * George B. Clark, ed. John W. Thomason.  The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2006.
 * History of the Second Battalion, Fifth Marines.Quantico,Va.: First Brigade, Fleet Marines, Marine Barracks.
 * A Brief History of the Sixth Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps: from its organization, July 1917, to the date of arrival at its present station at and in the vicinity of Leutesdorf Germany, Army occupation, December 1918.
 * History of the Third Battalion Sixth Regiment, U.S. Marines. Hillsdale,Michigan: Akers, Mac Ritchie & Hurlbut, 1919
 * The Ninth U.S. Infantry in the World War.
 * "Documents Relative to the Service in World War I of Captain Warren A. Lyon, 1918-1919."

Casualties and Replacements

 * Battle Casualties 6 April 1917 - 11 Nov 1918: 11,746
 * Replacements: 35,343
 * Strength 13 Nov 1918: 23,099

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections

 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 19117-1919
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939

Related FamilySearch Wiki Articles

 * Beginning United States World War I Research
 * United States World War I Infantry Divisions
 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919

Reference Sources

 * American Expeditionary Forces Distinctive Cloth Insignia Chart
 * U.S. Army Center of Military History Campaigns: World War I
 * U.S.Army Center of Military History World War I Divisions: Then and Now

Sources:
 * William E. Moore and James C. Russell. U.S. Official Pictures of the World War. Washington,D.C.: Pictorial Bureau, 1920
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * Leonard L. Lerwill. The Personnel Replacement System in the United States Army. department of the Army, August, 1954