American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 5th Division

Fifth Division - Regular Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname Red Diamond Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * 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


 * 5th Division. (12/11/1917 - 10/4/1921) NARA Organization Authority Record
 * Native Americans Serving with the Fifth Division NARA NAID 34392907

Troops Drawn

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Logan, Texas. 7.18.1917-3.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: March 20, 1918-June 19, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: July 13, 1919.

Major Operations

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

Military Units attached to the Fifth Division
 9th Infantry Brigade   10th Infantry Brigade   5th Field Artillery Brigade   5th Trench Mortar Battery   Trains 
 * 60th Infantry
 * 61st Infantry
 * 14th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 6th Infantry
 * 11th Infantry
 * 15th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 19th Field Artillery
 * 20th Field Artillery
 * 21st Field Artillery
 * Divisional Troops
 * 13th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 7th Engineers
 * 9th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 5th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 54th Ammunition Train
 * 5th Supply Train
 * 7th Engineer Train
 * 5th Sanitary Train ( Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 17,25,29,30

Unit Histories

 * Kenyon Stevenson. The Official History of the Fifth Division U.S.A. During the Period of its Organization and of its Operations in the European War, 1917 - 1919. The Red Diamond (Meuse) Division. Society of the Fifth Division, 1919
 * A Brief History of 7th Engineers.5th Division.
 * Records of the World War. Field Orders 1918. 5th Division. Washington: Government Printing Office

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

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * ‘’United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.’’ 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, ‘’Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice.’’ New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921.

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