American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 82nd Division

Eighty-Second Division - National Army

 * Nickname: All American 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


 * Newspaper Clippings of Major Joseph V. Cooke, Member of the 326th Infantry Regiment, 1918 - 1919

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee

Training Camp in the United States

 * *Camp Gordon,Georgia. 7.18.1917-1.31.1922

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 8, 1918-July 12. 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 9, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * St. Mihiel.
 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Summaries of Operation - 82nd Division

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Second Division
163rd Infantry Brigade 164th Infantry Brigade 157th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 35th Infantry
 * 326th Infantry
 * 320th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 327th Infantry
 * 328th Infantry
 * 321st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th  Field Artillery
 * 320th Field Artillery
 * 321st Field Artillery
 * 307th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 319th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 307th  Engineers
 * 307th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 307th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 307th Ammunition Train
 * 307th Supply Train
 * 307th Engineer Train
 * 307th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 325-328)

Unit Histories

 * Official History of 82nd Division,American Expeditionary Forces,1917-1919:"All American Division. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1919.
 * James J. Cooke. The All-Americans at War: the 82nd Division in the Great War, 1917-1918. Westport,Ct.: Praeger, 1999.
 * History of the Three Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment of Infantry...(1920)

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
 * United States District Court. Military petitions, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918-1924
 * United States District Court. Military petitions, Rome Georgia, 1918

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

 * 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