American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 89th Division

Eighty-Ninth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Middle West Division
 * Native Americans Serving with the Eighty-Ninth Division. NARA NAID 34394676
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Funston

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: June 11, 1918. July 10, l918
 * French training area: Reyel. Souge
 * Date entered line: August 4, 1918. Lucey Sector
 * Date sailed for Home May 19. 1919

Major Operations

 * St. Mihiel.
 * Meuse-Argonne
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Ninth Division
177th Infantry Brigade 178th Infantry Brigade 164th Field Artillery Brigade Division Troop Trains
 * 353rd Infantry
 * 354th Infantry
 * 341st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 355th Infantry
 * 356th Infantry
 * 342nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 340th Field Artillery
 * 341st Field Artillery
 * 342nd Field Artillery
 * 314th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 340th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 314th Engineers
 * 314th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 314th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 314th Ammunition Train
 * 314th Supply Train
 * 314th Engineer Train
 * 314th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals  353-356)

Unit Histories

 * George H English. History of the 89th Division, U.S.A.: from its organization in 1917, through its operations in the World War, the occupation of Germany and unit demobilization in 1919. Kansas City, Missouri:The War Society of the 89th Division, 1920.
 * Regimental History Three Hundred and Forty-First Field Artillery. Eighty-Ninth Division of the National Army
 * Robert Walston Chubb. Regimental History,342nd Field Artillery, 89th Division. New York:The Regimental Historian,1921
 * Carlisle L. Jones. History and Roster of the 355th Infantry...Lincoln,Nebraska: Society of the 355th Infantry,39th Division,1919.
 * Charles Franklin Dienst. History of the 353rd Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, National Army, September, 1917-June, 1919. Wichita, Kansas: 1921.

Casualties and Replacements

 * Battle Casualties: 1,433
 * Wounded: 5,858
 * Replacements: 7,669
 * Strengths 13 Nov 1918: 22,320

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

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

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