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WW I Word War I US Army 77th Infantry Division Unit History Book
The 77th Infantry Division was organized from draftees,drawn mostly of men from New York City, and trained at Camp Upton in Yaphank,New York in the central part of Suffolk County, Long Island; the camp is nowBrookhaven National Laboratory.
Men of the 307thInfantry Regiment (attached to the British 42nd Division for instruction),headed by a British regimental band, marching past Major-General ArthurSolly-Flood (42nd Division) on a road near Famechon, France, 7 June 1918.
The 77th Infantry Division was the first American divisioncomposed of draftees to arrive in France in World War I, landing in April 1918;overall it was the seventh of 42 divisions to reach the Western Front. Thedivision fought in the Battle of Château-Thierry on 18 July 1918.
Throughout its service in France the 77th Division sustained10,194 casualties: 1,486 killed and 8,708 wounded. The division returned to theUnited States in April 1919 and was deactivated later that month.
The 154th Infantry Brigade was composed of the 307th and308th Infantry Regiments and the 306th Machine Gun Battalion. While thedivision had been recruited as a National Army unit from the New York Cityarea, attrition and replacements had complicated the complexion of the unit.For example, Company K of the 307th Infantry, had been redesignated from theformer Company L of the 160th Infantry, part of the California Army NationalGuard. The company had belonged to the 40th Division, which had been convertedinto a depot division in August 1918.
The "Lost Battalion" of World War I fame wascomposed of six companies of the 308th Infantry Regiment and one from the 307thInfantry Regiment
This reprinted book has 245 pages in this staple bound reference / book.
