American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 77th Division

Seventy-Seventh Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Metropolitan 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 303

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

National Archives Catalog
 * Native Americans Serving with the Seventy-Seventh Division. NARA NAID 34394258
 * American Expeditionary Forces. 77th Division. Lost Battalion. 10/1918-10/1918
 * Pigeon Message from Major Whittlesey to the Commanding Officer of the 308th Infantry NAID 595541
 * The Operation of the So-Called "Lost Battalion", October 2 to 8, 1918.

Troops Drawn
Selective Service (Draft) New York City and vicinity

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Upton, New York. 1917 - 6.30.1946]

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: April I7-May 12. 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: April 17, 1918.

Major Operations

 * ''Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920. pp. 28-30
 * Summaries of Operations 77th Division
 * 77th Division Maps
 * St. Mihiel.
 * Meuse-Argonne.

Military Units attached to the Seventy-Seventh Division
153rd Infantry Brigade 154th Infantry Brigade 152nd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops  Trains 
 * 305th Infantry
 * 306th Infantry
 * 305th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 307th Infantry
 * 308th Infantry
 * 306th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 304th Field Artillery
 * 305th Field Artillery
 * 306th Field Artillery
 * 302nd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 304th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 302nd Engineers
 * 302nd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 302nd  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 302nd  Ammunition Train
 * 302nd Supply Train
 * 302nd  Engineer Train
 * 302nd Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 305-308

Unit Histories

 * History of the Seventy-Seventh Division, August 25, 1917 November 11, 1918:designed and written in the field- France. New York,New York: The 77th Division Association, 1919.
 * Arthur McKeogh.The Victorious 77th Division in the Argonne Fight (New York's Own)in the Argonne Fight. New York: john E. Eggers Co.,1919
 * James H. Howard. The Autobiography of a Regiment: a history of the 304th Field Artillery in the World War. New York, 1920
 * Joseph Glass, et. al. The Story of Battery D 304th Field Artillery September 1917 to May 1919. the Author, 1919
 * Gilbert H. Crawford. The 302nd Engineers, a history. New York?: s.n.,1920
 * Robert H. Ferrell. Five days in October : the lost battalion of World War IColumbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, c2005. FHL 973 M2ff

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

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps
 * New York Supreme Court. Suffolk County. Camp Upton military petitions for naturalization, 1918; index 1918-1920
 * United States. District Court. Petitions for naturalization filed at Fort Hamilton during WW1, 1918-1920

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
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918

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