American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 38th Division

Thirty-Eighth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Cyclone 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 247

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

 * Indiana,Kentucky,West Virginia

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Shelby, Mississippi. 7.21.1917-10.15.1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Eighth Division
75th Infantry Brigade 76th Infantry Brigade 63rd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 149th Infantry
 * 150th Infantry
 * 138th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 151st Infantry
 * 152nd Infantry
 * 139th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 137th Field Artillery
 * 138th Field Artillery
 * 139th Field Artillery
 * 113th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 137th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 113th Engineers
 * 113th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 113th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 113th Ammunition Train
 * 113th Supply Train
 * 113th  Engineer Train
 * 113th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 149-152

Unit Histories

 * E.J.D. Larson.Memories of France and the Eighty-Eighth Division. Minneapolis, Minn., May 1 1920.
 * Robert L. Moorhead. The Story of the 139th Field Artillery American Expeditionary Forces. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1920

Soldier Naturalization

 * 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
Indiana
 * 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
 * Indiana, World War I, Enrollment Cards, 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

 * United States World War One Centennial Commission
 * National World War I Museum and Memorial. Kansas City, Mo.

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