Unit and Regimental Histories
Regimental histories are valuable research sources that often offer a unique perspective for the study of the First World War. They provide details on the organization and achievements of a particular unit, often focusing on wartime activities.
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Collections
Andrew A. Martin Collection
Sergeant in 315th Ambulance Company, 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Army, during World War I. Histories of the company and poem.
The red guidon / edited by the 328 Field
Artillery, A.E.F.
Michigan Naval Militia Records
Roll book and duty roster for Co. J, 3rd Regiment.
125th Infantry Regiment History
Description of activities of the regiment during the First World War.
Wilber M. Brucker Papers
Prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County, Michigan, attorney general of Michigan, 1929-1931, governor, 1931-1932, general counsel to the Department of Defense during the Army-McCarthy Hearing, 1954-1955, and Secretary of the Army, 1955-1961. Correspondence, speeches, tapes, appointment books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning his political career; also papers relating to the history of the Rainbow Division of which Brucker was a member during the First World War; masonic papers; miscellanea concerning the history of Saginaw, Michigan, files relating to the struggle over Michigan legislative apportionment, 1963-1964; legal files and miscellaneous papers of Clara H. Brucker, particularly concerning her work with the Detroit (Mich.) School of Government.
Finding Aid available online.
Ambulance Service, Section 590 Company Log
Unit composed mainly of University of Michigan undergraduates. Record of activities during World War I.
John Dewey McDaniels Papers
Officer in the 125th Infantry during World War I, later colonel in the Michigan State Troops. History of the Detroit Armory Corporation, list of World War I dead from the 125th Infantry, and miscellanea.
Published Resources
Colonel Joe and the Red Arrow Army (Forgotten Films & Video, 1999), one videocassette (ca. 75 min.)
Logan Elsworth Ruggles, History of the Von Steuben and the Part She Played in the Great War (Ship History Publishing Co: Hoboken, N.J, 1919)
Roster & History of the Machine Gun Company, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventy Infantry, Sixty-Fourth Brigade, Thirty-Second Division, Army of Occupation (Stiftsdruckerei: Coblenz Germany, 1919)
United States, The United States Naval Railway Batteries in France (Govt. Print. Off: Washington, 1922)
United States, The Thirty Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919 (Y.M.C.A: s.l., 1919)
Pictorial Review of 32d Division, "Les Terribles" in Action, May-November, 1918 (Badger Photo and Picture Co: Fort Atkinson, Wisc)
Sarah Satterthwaite Leslie, Morningshore Joins the 37th (Exposition press: New York, 1947)
United States, A History of the 5th Division, "We Will" (1941)
Joseph Ralston Hayden, A History of the University Divisions Michigan Naval Militia (Association of former members University divisions, M.N.M: Ann Arbor, 1921)
Glenn W Garlock, Tales of the Thirty-Second (Badger publishing company: West Salem, Wis, 1927)
Laurence La Tourette Driggs, Heroes of Aviation (Little, Brown, and company: Boston, 1918)
Tom S Henderson, Selfridge Field Air Fighters (Liggett & Gagnier, printers: Detroit, 1919)
Emil B Gansser, On the Battle Fields of France in 1918 (Emil B. Gansser and Robert L. Gansser: Grand Rapids, Mich, 1958)
Roy D Hollingsworth, 10,000 Miles with the 125th Infantry Supply Train (s.n: Port Huron, Mich, 1932)
American Legion, Red Arrow
Thirty-Second Division History
and Facts
( Detroit, Mich., 1934)
American Legion, Red Arrow Thirty-Second Division History and Facts (The Post: Detroit, Mich., 1934)
Wisconsin War History Commission, Michigan War History Commission, The 32nd Division in the World War, 1917-1919 (Wisconsin Print. Co: Milwaukee, Wis, 1920)
Thirty-second Division Veterans' Association, 5th Annual Reunion of the 32nd Division (Les Terribles): Sept. 13-14-15, 1924 Milwaukee, Wis (Thirty-second Divisionn Veterans' Association: Milwaukee, Wis, 1924)
Logan Elsworth Ruggles, The Part the U.S.S. Von Steuben Played in the Great War (Brooklyn Eagle Press: Brooklyn, N.Y., 1919)
Edward W Barry, Doings of Battery B; Humorous Happenings & Striking Situations in the Experiences of Its Members. 328th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces (The Dean-Hicks co: Grand Rapids, Mich, 1919)
United States, All the Way with the Boys of the 329th Field Artillery (192?)
The Red Arrow (32nd Division Veteran Association: Detroit Mich.)
John W Barry, The Midwest Goes to War: The 32nd Division in the Great War (Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Md, 2007)
Emil B Gansser, History of the 126th Infantry in the War with Germany (126th Infantry Association, A.E.F: Grand Rapids, Mich, 1920)
American Battle Monuments Commission, 32d Division Summary of Operations in the World War (U.S. G.P.O: Washington, D.C, 1943)
United States, The Red Guidon (s.n: s.l, 1919)
De Witt Clinton Millen, Memoirs of 591 in the World War (D.C. Millen: Ann Arbor, Mich, 1932)