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

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.


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

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