American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 5th Division

Fifth Division - Regular Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname Red Diamond Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * 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


 * 5th Division. (12/11/1917 - 10/4/1921) NARA Organization Authority Record
 * Native Americans Serving with the Fifth Division NARA NAID 34392907

Troops Drawn

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Logan, Texas. 7.18.1917-3.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: March 20, 1918-June 19, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: July 13, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * St. Mihiel
 * Meuse-Argonne.

Military Units attached to the Fifth Division
 9th Infantry Brigade   10th Infantry Brigade   5th Field Artillery Brigade   5th Trench Mortar Battery   Trains 
 * 60th Infantry
 * 61st Infantry
 * 14th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 6th Infantry
 * 11th Infantry
 * 15th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 19th Field Artillery
 * 20th Field Artillery
 * 21st Field Artillery
 * Divisional Troops
 * 13th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 7th Engineers
 * 9th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 5th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 54th Ammunition Train
 * 5th Supply Train
 * 7th Engineer Train
 * 5th Sanitary Train ( Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 17,25,29,30

Unit Histories

 * Kenyon Stevenson. The Official History of the Fifth Division U.S.A. During the Period of its Organization and of its Operations in the European War, 1917 - 1919. The Red Diamond (Meuse) Division. Society of the Fifth Division, 1919
 * A Brief History of 7th Engineers.5th Division.
 * Records of the World War. Field Orders 1918. 5th Division. Washington: Government Printing Office

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 Family History Library Holdings

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * ‘’United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.’’ 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, ‘’Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice.’’ New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921.

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