Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-25
WESTERN MEN
FIGHTING HUNS
ON GERMAN SOIL
Wisconsin and Michigan Troops
in AISace.
REPORT BY WAR DEPARTMENT
Thirty-second Division Is Composed
of National Guard Troops Under
Command of Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. haan.

Washington. JIne 19.-The war de-
partment authorized formally the an
nouncement of the fact that the Thir-
ty-second division (National Guard) is
now lighting in Alsace, on German ter
ritory. Since the division has been in
action its presence has been identified
by the Germans permitting the fact TO
be disclosed.
The Thirty-second division is com
posed of Michigan and Wisconsin
troops which left this country com
manded by Maj. Gen. William G. Ham,
under whom it was trained at Camp
Macarthur. Tex.
First Killed on German Soil.
1t was a soldier of this division, Pri-
vate ]. w. Guyton. who had the dis
tinction of being the first man of the
American forces to be killed on Ger
man soil. The division took over
sector of the line in Alsace just north
of the Swiss border only a short time
ago.
AS it was recognized before its de-
division was composed of the following
old National Guard units from Wiscon-
sin and Michigan:
Thirty-second headquarters troop,
made up from Third and Sixth Wis
consin infantry and First Michigan
cavalry One Hundred and Nineteenth
machine gun. battalion; Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Wisconsin infantry.
Sixty-third infantry brigade-Bri
gade headquarters. First Michigan in
fantry brigade headquarters and Thir-
ty-second Michigan infantry, One Hun
dred and Twentieth machine gun bat
talon, Thirty-first and Thirty-third
Michigan infantry, One Hundred and
Twenty fifth infantry, Thirty-frst and
Thirty-third Michigan and Fifth Wis
consin infantry, One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth infantry. Thirty-frst and
Thirty-second Michigan infantry.
Many Wisconsin Troops.
SiXty-fourth infantry brigade
Headquarters. First Wisconsin brigade
headquarters and Second Wisconsin
inf ntry, { ne Hundred and Twenty
first machine gun battalion, Third and
Fifth Wisconsin infantry; One Hun
dred and Twenty-seventh infantry,
First. Second, Third. Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth Wisconsin infantry; One Hun
dred and Twenty-eighth infantry.
First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth Wisconsin infantry and First
Michigan field signal battalion.
Fifty-seventh field artillery bri-
gade-Brigade headquarters, First
Wisconsin and First Michigan field ar
tillery and First Wisconsin and First
Michigan cavalry; One Hundred and
Nineteenth field artillery, First Wis
consin and First Michigan cavalry.
First Michigan field artillery and Thir-
ty-first and Thirty-second Michigan
infantry; One Hundred and Twentieth
field artillery, First Wisconsin cavalry
and Second Wisconsin infantry; One
Hundred and Twenty-frst field artil-
lery Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wiscon-
sin infantry, First Wisconsin field ar
tillery and Wisconsin field hospital No.
2, One Hundred and Seventh trench
mortar battery, Fourth Wisconsin in
fantry.
Engineers Are There, Too.
One Hundred and Seventh engineers.
First battalions Michigan and Wiscon-
sin signal corps and Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth Wisconsin infantry.
One Hundred and Seventh field sig
nal battalion, First Michigan and Wis
consin signal battalion.
Trains-One Hundred and Seventh
headquarters and military police,
Fourth and Sixth Wisconsin infantry:
One Hundred and Seventh ammunition
train, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wiscon-
sin infantry; One Hundred and
Seventh supply train, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth Wisconsin infan-
try; One Hundred and Sew
enth engineers, First battalions Michi-
gan and Wisconsin engineers; One
Hundred and Seventh sanitary train,
Michigan and Wisconsin trains and
First and Fifth Wisconsin infantry and
First Michigan cavalry.
Several units of the Thirty-Second
were on board the British liner Tus-
cania when it was torpedoed and sent
down by an enemy submarine last
February, and some of the members
were among the relatively small num-
Der of victims of that disaster.