WWI US ARMY 83RD DIVISION UNIFORM JACKET WW1

Beautiful WWI US Army 83rd Division Medical Sergeant First Class Jacket with Bakelite Buttons. To the shoulder a beautiful bullion 83rd Division Patch. The shoulder sleeve insignia of the 83rd Division insignia consists of a letters in gold spelling out the word "O-H-I-O" on a black isosceles triangular background. The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees. Also on the sleeve is a Red Discharge Stripe and Two Gold Overseas Stripes. The opposing sleeve has a single Medical First Sergeant Chevron. The collar insignia have standard US and Medical Collar Disks. Excellent, roughly a size 36.World War IThe division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. It was initially made up of enlisted draftees from Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a cadre of Regular Army, Officers Reserve Corps, and National Army officers. Later groups of enlisted men assigned to the division to replace men transferred to other units came from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The division went overseas in June 1918, and was designated as the 2nd Depot Division. It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. Certain divisional units saw action, such as the 332nd Infantry Regiment, in Italy (Battle of Vittorio Veneto). Its commanders were Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (25 August 1917), Brig. Gen. Frederick Perkins (13 January 1918), Brig. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook (23 March 1918), and finally Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (3 April 1918). It was demobilized in October 1919.