American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 38th Division
Thirty-Eighth Division - National Guard
- Nickname: Cyclone Division
- Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 pp 240-245;Images 247-252 FamilySearch Digital Library
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
Training
Troops Drawn
- Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia
- Composition of National Guard Divisions and Disposition of Former National Guard Units 1917. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918.
Training Camp in the United States
- Camp Shelby, Mississippi. 7.21.1917-10.15.1919.
- Correspondence, 1917–1919
- General Orders, August 1917–January 1919
- Memorandums, July 1918–May 1919
- General Orders and Company Orders of Units and Offices, 1917–1919
- Bulletins, September 1917–March 1919
Overseas Service
Major Operations
Military Units attached to the Thirty-Eighth Division
75th Infantry Brigade
- 149th Infantry
- 150th Infantry
- 138th Machine Gun Battalion
76th Infantry Brigade
- 151st Infantry
- 152nd Infantry
- 139th Machine Gun Battalion
63rd Field Artillery Brigade
- 137th Field Artillery
- 138th Field Artillery
- 139th Field Artillery
- 113th Trench Mortar Battery
Divisional Troops
- 137th Machine Gun Battalion
- 113th Engineers
- 113th Field Signal Battalion
- Headquarters Troop
Trains
- 113th Train HQ and Military Police
- 113th Ammunition Train
- 113th Supply Train
- 113th Engineer Train
- 113th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 149-152
Unit Histories
- E.J.D. Larson. Memories of France and the Eighty-Eighth Division. Minneapolis, Minn., May 1 1920.
- Robert L. Moorhead. The Story of the 139th Field Artillery American Expeditionary Forces. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1920 FamilySearch Digital Library
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
- Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, November 1917–September 1919 Camp Shelby, Mississippi
FamilySearch Resources
FamilySearch Historical Records
- 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
Indiana
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
- United States World War One Centennial Commission
- National World War I Museum and Memorial. Kansas City, Mo.