WW1 US ARMY 5th DIVISION 3RD ARMY UNIFORM w SHIRT

WW1 US Army 5th Division / 3rd Army uniform with rare shirt. Uniform features on the wearers left shoulder a 5th Division shoulder sleeve insignia with a separate 3rd Army of Occupation patch on top of the 5th Div. patch. Just below that is a red discharge stripe and 1 gold overseas stripe for 6 months overseas service. To the collar is US 15 Machine Gun Battalion and Infantry Machine Gun Brass. Uniform is roughly a size 34 and comes with matching trousers and a very difficult to find shirt. Uniform has light mothing throughout but still overall 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 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.