American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 39th Division

Thirth-Ninth Division - National Guard

 * Fifth Depot Division.
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 253

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

Troops Drawn

 * Arkansas,Mississippi and Louisiana.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. 7.18.1917-9.7.1945

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Ninth Division
77th Infantry Brigade 78th Infantry Brigade 64th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 153rd Infantry
 * 154th Infantry
 * 141st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 155th Infantry
 * 156th Infantry
 * 142nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 140th Field Artillery
 * 141st  Field Artillery
 * 142nd Field Artillery
 * 114th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 140th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 114th Engineers
 * 114th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 114th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 114th Ammunition Train
 * 114th Supply Train
 * 114th  Engineer Train
 * 114th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 153-156

Soldier Naturalizations

 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections
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 * 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
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * Louisiana World War I Service Records, 1917-1920
 * Mississippi, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Mississippi, World War I Army Veterans, Master alphabetical index, 1917-1918

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