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

The following naturalizations occurred in the the states which provided soldier(s) 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.
 * 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
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 - World War I Training Camps

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