Insignia

[Excerpt from Wyllie, Col. Robert E. "The Romance of Military Insignia."
 The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6. December, 1919. ]

The letters stand for All American, the name by which the division was known. These letters are in gold for officers and white for enlisted men.

Nickname

"All American" Division.

Background

National Army Division established by the War Department on 5 August 1917 to be established at Camp Gordon, GA.  Draftees were from Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.  Movement overseas commenced on 10 April 1918 and was completed by 10 July 1918.

Primary Units

163d Infantry Brigade:
325th Infantry Regiment
326th Infantry Regiment
320th Machine Gun Battalion

164th Infantry Brigade:
327th Infantry Regiment
328th Infantry Regiment
321st Machine Gun Battalion

157th Field Artillery Brigade:
319th Field Artillery Regiment (155mm)
320th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)
321st Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)
307th Trench Mortar Battery

Divisional Troops:
319th Machine Gun Battalion
307th Engineer Regiment
307th Field Signal Battalion
307th Train Headquarters and MP
307th Ammunition Train
307th Supply Train
307th Engineer Train
307th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies & Field Hospitals 325, 326, 327, 328)

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DB 82-1: 82d Division, Division Histories

DB 82-2: 82d Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

DB 82-3: 82d Division, 163d Infantry Brigade

DB 82-4: 82d Division, 164th Infantry Brigade, Vol. 1 (327th Infantry & 321st MG Bn)

DB 82-5: 82d Division, 164th Infantry Brigade, Vol. 2 (328th Infantry)

DB 82-6: 82d Division, 157th Field Artillery Brigade

DB 82-7: 82d Division, Divisional Units

DB 82-8: 82d Division, Unpublished Divisional Documents

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