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 Pages 21-41 (images 28-48)

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.

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

Related 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

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

 * 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