American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 78th Division

Seventy-Eighth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Lighting 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 315

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


 * Native Americans Serving with the Seventy-Eighth Division. NARA NAID 34394325

Troops Drawn
Selective Service (Draft) New York, New Jersey and Delaware

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Dix.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 18.,1918-June 12, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 24.1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces pp. 30-
 * Summaries of Operations - 78th Division
 * 78th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Seventy-Eighth Division
154th Infantry Brigade 156th Infantry Brigade 153rd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops  Trains 
 * 309th Infantry
 * 310th Infantry
 * 308th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 311th Infantry
 * 312th Infantry
 * 309th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 307th  Field Artillery
 * 308th Field Artillery
 * 309th Field Artillery
 * 303rd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 307th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 303rd Engineers
 * 303rd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 303rd  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 303rd  Ammunition Train
 * 303rd Supply Train
 * 303rd  Engineer Train
 * 303rd Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals309-312

Unit Histories

 * Thomas F. Meehan. History of the Seventy-Eighth Division in the World War,1917-1919.New York:Dodd,Mead and Company, 1921.
 * History of the 307th Field Artillery September 6, 1917-May 16, 1919.
 * Joseph P. Roth and Robert L. Wheeler, comps. History Company E 303 Engineers of the 78th Division,1917-1919. New York: John P. Smith Print, 1919

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps

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
 * Delaware, World War I Servicemen Records, 1917-1919

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