WW1 NAMED 5TH DIVISION CAPTAIN UNIFORM JACKET WWI

WW1 Captain's US Army 5th Division 26th Artillery named uniform jacket with stellar insignia. Tunic is named to the interior to Capt. A. J. McDonald and was tailored by Truhauf on New York. The wearers left sleeve is double patched with 5th and 3rd Army patches as well as three gold overseas stripes. The collar has typical US with crossed cannon devices indicating artillery service. Tunic is roughly a size 36R and in excellent condition. World War I Organization Units associated with the division included: Headquarters, 5th Division 9th Infantry Brigade 60th Infantry Regiment 61st Infantry Regiment 14th Machine Gun Battalion 10th Infantry Brigade 6th Infantry Regiment 11th Infantry Regiment 15th Machine Gun Battalion 5th Field Artillery Brigade 19th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 20th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 21st Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 5th Trench Mortar Battery 13th Machine Gun Battalion 7th Engineer Regiment 9th Field Signal Battalion Headquarters Troop, 5th Division 5th Train Headquarters and Military Police 5th Ammunition Train 5th Supply Train 5th Engineer Train 5th Sanitary Train 17th, 25th, 29th, and 30rd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals November 1918: US General Pershing at a review of the 5th Division in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. The 5th Division was activated on 11 December 1917, just over eight months after the American entry into World War I, at Camp Logan, near Houston, Texas and began training for deployment to the Western Front. The entire division had arrived in France by 1 May 1918 and components of the units were deployed into the front line. The 5th Division was the eighth of forty-two American divisions to arrive on the Western Front. The 5th Division trained with French Army units from 1 to 14 June 1918. The first soldiers of the unit to be killed in action died on 14 June of that year. Among the division's first casualties was Captain Mark W. Clark, then commanding the 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, who would later become a four-star general. On 12 September, the unit was part of a major attack that reduced the salient at St. Mihiel. The division later fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest battle fought by the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) (and the largest in the history of the U.S. Army) in World War I. The war ended soon after, on November 11, 1918. The division served in the Army of Occupation, being based in Belgium and Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg until it departed Europe. The division returned to the United States through the New York Port of Embarkation at Hoboken, New Jersey, on 21 July 1919.