American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 39th Division

Thirth-Ninth Division - National Guard

 * Fifth Depot 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 253

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

 * Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. 7.18.1917-9.7.1945

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Ninth Division
77th Infantry Brigade 78th Infantry Brigade 64th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 153rd Infantry
 * 154th Infantry
 * 141st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 155th Infantry
 * 156th Infantry
 * 142nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 140th Field Artillery
 * 141st  Field Artillery
 * 142nd Field Artillery
 * 114th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 140th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 114th Engineers
 * 114th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 114th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 114th Ammunition Train
 * 114th Supply Train
 * 114th  Engineer Train
 * 114th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 153-156

Soldier Naturalizations
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
 Louisiana  Mississippi
 * 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
 * Louisiana World War I Service Records, 1917-1920
 * Mississippi, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Mississippi, World War I Army Veterans, Master alphabetical index, 1917-1918

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