American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 79th Division

Seventy-Ninth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Liberty 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 325

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


 * Native Americans Serving with the 79th Division NARA NAID 34394366

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Pennsylvania,Maryland and District of Columbia.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Meade.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: July 12-Aug. 3, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 18. 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summary of Operations - 79th Division
 * 79th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Seventy-Ninth Division
157th Infantry Brigade 158th Infantry Brigade 154th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 313th Infantry
 * 314th Infantry
 * 311th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 315th Infantry
 * 316th Infantry
 * 312th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 310th  Field Artillery
 * 311th Field Artillery
 * 312th Field Artillery
 * 304th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 310th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 304th  Engineers
 * 304th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 304th  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 304th Ammunition Train
 * 304th Supply Train
 * 304th Engineer Train
 * 304th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 313-316

Unit Histories

 * Henry C. Thorn. History of the 313th U.S. Infantry, "Baltimore's own New York, New York : Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., c1920. FHL 975.2 M2th

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

Family History Library Holdings

 * J. Stuart Richards, ed. Pennsylvanian voices of the Great War : letters, stories, and oral histories of World War I. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, ©2002 FHL 974.8 M2rj

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

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