WWI US ARMY 79TH DIVISION TUNIC KHAKI JACKET WW1

WWI Summer Weight Enlisted Service Tunic from the 79th Division in excellent condition. The tunic sports a beautiful 79th Division SSI and US and Crossed Rifles HQ Collar Disks. The lower sleeve has two gold overseas stripes indicating 1 year and up to 17 months of overseas duty and a single Infantry Trade Badge to the other sleeve with a wound Stripe. The tunic is roughly a size 38R. Excellent. Combat chronicle: The division was first activated at Camp Meade, Maryland in August 1917, composed primarily of draftees from Maryland and Pennsylvania. After a year of training the division sailed overseas in July 1918. The 79th Division saw extensive combat in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive area where it earned the name of "Cross of Lorraine" for their defense of France. The division was inactivated June 1919 and returned to the United States. Throughout its entire World War I campaign, the division suffered 6,874 casualties with 1,151 killed and 5,723 wounded. Private Henry Gunther, the last American soldier to be killed in action during World War I, served with the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division.