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MANEUVER AND FIREPOWER

Table 5

Expansion of Divisional Forces, 1918

Division Component Camp
9th RA and NA Sheridan, Ala.
10th RA and NA Funston, Kans.
11th RA and NA Meade, Md.
12th RA and NA Devens, Mass.
13th RA and NA Lewis, Wash.
14th RA and NA Custer, Mich.
15th RA and NA Logan, Tex.
16th RA and NA Kearny, Calif.
17th RA and NA Beauregard, La.
18th RA and NA Travis, Tex.
19th RA and NA Dodge, Iowa
20th RA and NA Sevier, S.C.
95th NA Sherman, Ohio
96th NA Wadsworth, N.Y.
97th NA Cody, N.M.
98th NA McClellan, Ala.
99th NA Wheeler, Ga.
100th NA Bowie, Tex.
101st NA Shelby, Miss.
102d NA Dix, N.J.

people offered to raise a volunteer infantry division to be a part of American forces. The offer was declined, but Congress authorized federalizing the Philippine Militia to replace U.S. Army units if necessary. Nine days after the armistice President Wilson ordered nascent militia into federal service for training, and the 1st Division, Philippine National Guard, was organized under the prewar divisional structure. The division, however, lacked many of its required units, and its headquarters was mustered out of federal service on 19 December 1918.[1]

There were also two Regular Army nondivisional infantry regiments in the Philippine Islands. In July 1918 they joined an international force for service in Siberia. To bring the regiments to war strength, 5,000 well-trained infantrymen from the 8th Division at Camp Fremont, California, joined the Siberian Expedition.[2]

In July 1918 Secretary Baker approved final expansion of divisional forces, which involved black draftees. The plan required black units to replace sixteen white pioneer infantry regiments serving in France. These white units were to be organized into eight infantry brigades and eventually be assigned to divisions partially raised in the United States. By 11 November the War Department had organized portions of the 95th through the 102d Divisions in the United States (see Table 5), but the brigades in France had not been organized.[3]

  1. Rpts of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, 1917, printed in ARWD, 1918, pp. 1–5, and 1918, printed in ARWD, 1919, p. 6; Zone of the Interior, pp. 674–75.
  2. Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War, American Expeditionary Forces, General Headquarters, Armies, Army Corps, Services of Supply, Separate Forces (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1949), p. 386, hereafter cited as General Headquarters, Armies.
  3. Memo, CofS for TAG, 23 Jul 18, sub: Disposal of the Colored draft (Organization of new divisions), AWC file 8142–185, RG 165, NARA; Zone of the Interior, pp. 662–70.