American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 76th Division

Seventy-Sixth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Liberty Bell 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 295

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) New England and New York

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Devens, Massachusetts. 7.18.1917-11.5.1931
 * William J. Robinson. Forging the sword : the story of Camp Devens, New England's army cantonment. Concord, New Hampshire : Rumford Press, ©1920
 * Roger Batchelder.  Camp Devens Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,1918

Major Operations

 * Third Depot Division
 * 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 Seventy-Sixth Division
151st Infantry Brigade  152nd Infantry Brigade   151st Field Artillery Brigade  Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 301st Infantry
 * 302nd Infantry
 * 302nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 303rd Infantry
 * 304th Infantry
 * 303rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 301st Field Artillery
 * 302nd Field Artillery
 * 303rd Field Artillery
 * 301st Trench Mortar Battery
 * 301st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 301st Engineers
 * 301st Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 301st Train HQ and Military Police
 * 301st Ammunition Train
 * 301st  Supply Train
 * 301st   Engineer Train
 * 301st Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 301-304)

Unit Histories

 * The 302nd Field Artillery. United States Army. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 302nd Field Artillery Association, 1919
 * The Three Hundred and First Engineers. A History 1917-1919.Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin Company: The Riverside Press, 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

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

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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