American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 32nd Division

Thirty-second Division -National Guard

 * Nickname: Iron Jaws Division


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

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

 National Archives Catalog 
 * Ordnance Sergeant Ivan V. Frye, Hqrs. Dep., 32nd Division NAID 86707786
 * Division Radio Unit in Use at Division Headquarters, 32nd Division, 3-e equipment NAID 86704821
 * CAPT. CARL BLANTON, INFANTRY Division Historian, 32nd Division. Sayn, Germany NAID 86704791

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard. Michigan and Wisconsin

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp MacArthur, Texas. 7.29.1917 - 3.7.1919
 * General Correspondence, 1917 - 1919
 * General Orders, 9/1917 - 3/1919
 * Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 9/1918 - 10/1918

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Feb. 6, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: April 27, 1919.

Major Operations

 * ''Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp. 20-21
 * Summaries of Operations 32nd Division
 * 32nd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Second Division
 63rd Infantry Brigade  64th Infantry Brigade 57th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 125th Infantry
 * 126th Infantry
 * 120th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 127th Infantry
 * 128th Infantry
 * 121st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 119th Field Artillery
 * 120th Field Artillery
 * 121st Field Artillery
 * 107th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 119th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Engineers
 * 107th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQTroops
 * 107th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 107th Ammunition Train
 * 107th Supply Train
 * 107th Engineer Train
 * 107th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 125-128

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

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.

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections
 Michigan
 * 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
 * Michigan, Census of World War I Veterans with Card Index, 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