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79th Infantry Division (United States)
Summary
The 79th Infantry Division (formerly known as the 79th Division) was an infantry formation of the United States Army Reserve in World Wars I and II.
Since 2009, it has been active as the 79th Theater Sustainment Command.
Activated: August 1917
Overseas: July 1918
Major operations: Meuse-Argonne
Casualties: Total-6,874 (KIA-1,151 ; WIA-5,723)
Commanders: Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (25 August 1917), Brig. Gen. William Jones Nicholson (26 November 1917), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (17 February 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (16 April 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (22 May 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 June 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (28 June 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (23 July 1918), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (29 December 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (31 December 1918), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (19 January 1919), Brig. Gen. John S. Winn (2 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Andrew Hero Jr. (3 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (9 February 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (28 February 1919), brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (16 March 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (30 March 1919), Brig. Gen. Joseph S. Winn (4 May 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 May 1919).
Returned to U.S.: May 1919
Inactivated: June 1919
Headquarters, 79th Division
157th Infantry Brigade
313th Infantry Regiment
314th Infantry Regiment
311th Machine Gun Battalion
158th Infantry Brigade
315th Infantry Regiment
316th Infantry Regiment
312th Machine Gun Battalion
154th Field Artillery Brigade
310th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)
311th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)
312th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm)
304th Trench Mortar Battery
310th Machine Gun Battalion
304th Engineer Regiment
304th Field Signal Battalion
Headquarters Troop, 79th Division
304th Train Headquarters and Military Police
304th Ammunition Train
304th Supply Train
304th Engineer Train
304th Sanitary Train
313th, 314th, 315th, and 316th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals
The division was first activated at Camp Meade, Maryland in August 1917, composed primarily of draftees from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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