American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 76th Division

Seventy-Sixth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Liberty Bell Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 295

The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Division Commanders
 * Division Composition: Infantry and Field Artillery Brigades, Divisional Trains; Trains: Ammunition, Supply, Engineer, Sanitary (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals); Attached: short term unit attachments; Detached: units detached from the division
 * Division Chronology- Assignment: Army, Corps, Date; Division Headquarters: Location, Date
 * Record of Events: Organization and Movement Overseas; Completion of Organization in France; Record of Events: Training and Operations; Record of Events: Return to the United States and Demobilization

Troops Drawn
Selective Service (Draft) New England and New York

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Devens, Massachusetts. 7.18.1917-11.5.1931
 * William J. Robinson. Forging the sword : the story of Camp Devens, New England's army cantonment. Concord, New Hampshire : Rumford Press, ©1920
 * Roger Batchelder.  Camp Devens Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,1918

Major Operations

 * Third Depot Division
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

Military Units attached to the Seventy-Sixth Division
151st Infantry Brigade  152nd Infantry Brigade   151st Field Artillery Brigade  Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 301st Infantry
 * 302nd Infantry
 * 302nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 303rd Infantry
 * 304th Infantry
 * 303rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 301st Field Artillery
 * 302nd Field Artillery
 * 303rd Field Artillery
 * 301st Trench Mortar Battery
 * 301st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 301st Engineers
 * 301st Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 301st Train HQ and Military Police
 * 301st Ammunition Train
 * 301st  Supply Train
 * 301st   Engineer Train
 * 301st Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 301-304)

Unit Histories

 * The 302nd Field Artillery. United States Army. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 302nd Field Artillery Association, 1919
 * The Three Hundred and First Engineers. A History 1917-1919.Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin Company: The Riverside Press, 1920

Soldier Naturalization
The following naturalizations occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp and others elsewhere. Soldiers in these collections may have also served in other divisions.
 * John J Newman. American naturalization processes and procedures, 1790-1985. pp. 15-16 will discuss naturalization of soldiers
 * Marian L. Smith. ‘’ ‘New Means and New Machinery:’ the problem of World War I soldier naturalization research.’’ NGS News Magazine (April/May/June,2005): 23-28


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

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, 1917-1919
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918

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
 * World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918

Related Websites

 * The National WWI Museum and Memorial Kansas City, MO.
 * United States World War One Centennial Commission

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