American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 87th Division

Eighty-Seventh Division - National Army

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

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Pine, Arkansas

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Seventh Division
173rd Infantry Brigade 174th Infantry Brigade 162nd  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 345th Infantry
 * 346th Infantry
 * 335th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 347th Infantry
 * 348th Infantry
 * 336th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 334th  Field Artillery
 * 335th Field Artillery
 * 336th Field Artillery
 * 312th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 334th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 312th Engineers
 * 312th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 312th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 312th Ammunition Train
 * 312th Supply Train
 * 312th Engineer Train
 * 312th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 345-348)

Unit Histories

 * The 346th Infantry Historical Notes.

Soldier Naturalizations

 * Desmond Walls Allen. 1918 Camp Pike, Arkansas, index to soldiers' naturalizations. Conway, Arkansas : Arkansas Research, Inc., c1988. FHL 976.773 P42a

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

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
 * The National WWI 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