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)

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.
 * French training area: Prauthoy, La Courtine.
 * Date entered line: September 16, 1918. Montfaucon Sector.
 * Date sailed for home: May 18. 1919.

Major Operations

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

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

Casualties and Replacements

 * Battle Deaths and Died of Wounds:1, 517
 * Wounded: 5,357
 * Replacements: 6,246

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
 * 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
 * NARA NAID 34394366 79th Division