WW I US Army 115th Infantry Regiment 29th Infantry Division Awards Book

Description

This is a RARE long out-of-print book
that comes in 8 ½ x 11 staple bound reprint of an otherwise almost impossible to book.
This very scarce book starts off with a listing of the units KIA during the war, and goes into their zigzag crossing of the submarine infested Atlantic Ocean. Once finally ashore covers the journey being transported across France headed to the trenches. Their first duty in the trenches was the Alsace Sector
The division wasn't even a year old when it received its baptism of fire in France. Company K, 115th, was the first unit in the 29th Division to engage the enemy when it repelled a German raid in July 1918.
During the Meuse-Argonne offensive they would fight for 21 straight days, moving over 6 miles (9.7 km), throwing back elements of six enemy divisions, and suffering a staggering 4,781 casualties in the process. After the Armistice was signed, the Twenty-Ninth Division was brought home in July 1919 and dissipated. The 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry, is authorized two campaign streamers for its service in World War I: one for Alsace and one for Meuse-Argonne.
There is a very nice itinerary, or timetable, of the division in France from Oct to departure for the United States in May 1919.
There is a nice section of unit awards and commendation letter for the division from General Pershing and French General Claudel of the 17th Army
Plus a really nice listing of the soldiers award the DSC Medal, the French Croix de Guerre, Belgian Awards, and a divisional citation
Lastly there are 40 pages of the complete roster of the unit
This staple bound book has 252 pages in it.