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

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

 * 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 in France, Belgium and Italy,1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

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

 * 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
 * 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