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Meuse–Argonne (Artillery Only) 42nd Division ("Rainbow Division") 1 August 1917 16 June 1918 Maj. Gen. William A. Mann Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher Maj. Gen. Charles D. Rhodes Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Champagne-Marne Saint-Mihiel Meuse–Argonne
The Coast Artillery was designated to provide the personnel for all US-manned heavy artillery (155 mm gun and larger), almost all railway artillery, and later anti-aircraft artillery units. As with most US Army World War I equipment, these units were primarily equipped with French- and British-made weapons, with few American-made heavy weapons ...
The artillery of World War I, improved over that used in previous wars, influenced the tactics, operations, and strategies that were used by the belligerents. This led to trench warfare and encouraged efforts to break the resulting stalemate at the front. World War I raised artillery to a new level of importance on the battlefield.
The 91st Infantry Division is an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in World War I and World War II. From 1946 until 2008, it was part of the United States Army Reserve. It was briefly inactivated from 2008 until 2010 when it was elevated back to a division size element as the 91st Training Division (Operations). [1]
The Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, XI Corps Artillery, which had served with XI Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II, was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters Battery, I Corps Artillery on the same date and assigned to I Corps Artillery. [1] At the end of the Cold War I Corps Artillery, assigned to I Corps at Fort ...
Trask, David F ed. World War I at home; readings on American life, 1914-1920 (1969) primary sources online; Tucker, Spencer C., and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2005). worldwide coverage; Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide (2014) excerpt
It was originally formed as the 7th Regiment of New York Volunteers upon the request of President James K. Polk by New York State Legislator Jonathan D. Stevenson.Secretary of War William L. Marcy directed Stevenson that the regiment should be composed of unmarried men, of good habits and varied pursuits, and such as would be likely to remain in California or adjoining territory at the close ...
Target at Camp Kearny after bombardment by shrapnel; World War I era. The camp was established by the Army in 1917 on 12,721 acres (51.48 km 2) of land on a mesa north of San Diego. [1] [2] The area included the 2,130-acre (8.6 km 2) Miramar Ranch, which had originally been established by newspaperman E. W. Scripps and later sold to the Jessop ...