American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 32nd Division

Thirty-second Division -National Guard

 * Nickname: Iron Jaws 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

 National Archives Catalog 
 * Ordnance Sergeant Ivan V. Frye, Hqrs. Dep., 32nd Division NAID 86707786
 * Division Radio Unit in Use at Division Headquarters, 32nd Division, 3-e equipment NAID 86704821
 * CAPT. CARL BLANTON, INFANTRY Division Historian, 32nd Division. Sayn, Germany NAID 86704791

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard. Michigan and Wisconsin

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp MacArthur, Texas. 7.29.1917 - 3.7.1919
 * General Correspondence, 1917 - 1919
 * General Orders, 9/1917 - 3/1919
 * Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 9/1918 - 10/1918

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Feb. 6, 1918.
 * French Training Area: 19th Training Area.
 * Date entered line: May 18,1918, La Chapelle Sector, Upper Alsace.
 * Days in Quiet (60) and Active (35) Sectors. Total 95.
 * Date sailed for home: April 27, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces pp. 20-21
 * Summaries of Operations 32nd Division
 * 32nd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Second Division
 63rd Infantry Brigade  64th Infantry Brigade 57th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 125th Infantry
 * 126th Infantry
 * 120th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 127th Infantry
 * 128th Infantry
 * 121st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 119th Field Artillery
 * 120th Field Artillery
 * 121st Field Artillery
 * 107th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 119th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Engineers
 * 107th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQTroops
 * 107th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 107th Ammunition Train
 * 107th Supply Train
 * 107th Engineer Train
 * 107th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 125-128

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 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
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 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * Michigan, Census of World War I Veterans with Card Index, 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