TABLE 4
Geographic Distribution of National Army Divisions
World War I
| Designation | Geographic Area | Camp |
| 76th | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut | Devens, Mass. |
| 77th | Metropolitan New York City | Upton, N.Y. |
| 78th | New York and northern Pennsylvania | Dix, N.J. |
| 79th | Southern Pennsylvania | Meade, Md. |
| 80th | New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia | Lee, Va. |
| 81st | Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina | Jackson, S.C. |
| 82d | Georgia, Alabama, and Florida | Gordon, Ga. |
| 83d | Ohio and West Virginia | Sherman, Ohio |
| 84th | Indiana and Kentucky | Taylor, Ky. |
| 85th | Michigan and Wisconsin | Custer, Mich. |
| 86th | Illinois | Grant, Ill. |
| 87th | Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi | Pike, Ark. |
| 88th | Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota | Dodge, Iowa |
| 89th | Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado | Funston, Kans. |
| 90th | Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico | Travis, Tex. |
| 91st | Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming | Lewis, Wash. |
them as security detachments and labor troops in France. Shortly thereafter he advised the War Department that the marines did not fit into his organizational plans and recommended that they be converted to Army troops. The marines, however, continued to press for a combat role. Eventually the Departments of War and the Navy agreed that two Regular Army infantry regiments, initially programmed as lines of communication troops, and the two Marine regiments (one serving in France and one from the United States) should form the core of the 2d Division. The adjutant general informed Pershing of the decision, and Brig. Gen. Charles A. Doyen, U.S. Marine Corps, organized the 2d Division on 26 October 1917 at Bourmont, Haute-Marne, France. The division eventually included the 3d Infantry Brigade (the 9th and 23d Infantry and the 3d Machine Gun Battalion), the 4th Marine Brigade (the 5th and 6th Marines and the 6th Machine Gun Battalion [Marines]), the 2d Field Artillery Brigade, and support units.[1]
- ↑ Memo, WCD for CofS, 21 May 17, sub: Plans for a possible expeditionary force to France, WCD file 10050–21, RG 165, NARA; Memo, WCD for CofS, sub: Organization of the 2d Division (Regular) for service overseas, approved 20 Sep 17, and Memo, TAG to multiple addresses, 21 Sep 17, Organization of 2d Division (Regular), both 2d Inf Div file, DAMH-HSO; United States Army in the World War, 1917–1919: Policy-Forming Documents American Expeditionary Forces, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948) p. 35, hereafter cited as Documents; United States Army in the World War, 1917–1919: Training and the Use of American Units with British and French, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948) pp. 491–92, hereafter cited as Training; Oliver L. Spaulding and John W. Wright, The Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France 1917–1919 (New York: Hillman Press, Inc., 1937), pp. 6–7; Thomas Shipley, The History of the A.E.F. (New York: George H. Dorm Co., 1920), p. 46; Allan R. Millett, Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1980), pp. 289–94.
