American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 82nd Division

Eighty-Second Division - National Army

 * Nickname: All American Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

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


 * Newspaper Clippings of Major Joseph V. Cooke, Member of the 326th Infantry Regiment, 1918 - 1919

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee

Training Camp in the United States

 * *Camp Gordon,Georgia. 7.18.1917-1.31.1922

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 8, 1918-July 12. 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 9, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * St. Mihiel.
 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Summaries of Operation - 82nd Division

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Second Division
163rd Infantry Brigade 164th Infantry Brigade 157th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 325th Infantry
 * 326th Infantry
 * 320th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 327th Infantry
 * 328th Infantry
 * 321st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th  Field Artillery
 * 320th Field Artillery
 * 321st Field Artillery
 * 307th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 319th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 307th  Engineers
 * 307th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 307th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 307th Ammunition Train
 * 307th Supply Train
 * 307th Engineer Train
 * 307th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 325-328)

Unit Histories

 * Official History of 82nd Division,American Expeditionary Forces,1917-1919:"All American Division. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1919.
 * James J. Cooke. The All-Americans at War: the 82nd Division in the Great War, 1917-1918. Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 1999.
 * W.M. Whitman, Story of the 325th infantry S.l. : s.n., 19--? (Bordeaux : Imp. Saugnac & Drouillard)
 * History of the Three Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment of Infantry...(1920)
 * History of Three hundred and twenty eighth regiment of Infantry : Eighty-Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, United States Army

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

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
 * United States District Court. Military petitions, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918-1924, 6 rolls

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