Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-21
DIVISION OF WHICH IOWA RE0l.
MENT IS PART HAS HAD
YEAR OF FIGHTING.
HAS MET AND DEFEATED
TWENTv.slx DIVISIONS.
In Battles From Suippes 70 Arsonne
Record Il, Grand ons-HeIped Turn
Tide Against Huns and to Halt
Grand offensivs-Lsft America just
One Year Ago.

With the American Army in France,
oct. 21.-The Forty second (Rainbow)
division. one of the crack units of the
American army, left the United States
just year ago. On Oct. IS, 1917. its
headquarters and certain elements of
the division left America. and the re-
mainder followed on the succeeding
days. This division has been involved
in all the, larger actions in which the
Americans have been engaged.
After reaching France it underwent
a period of training in a back area and
on April 1 took over a sector in the
Luneville reg ion. being the first Amer
icon division intrusted with a d:vi-
sional sector.
First Big Battle July IS.
Having held for three months an
active but stationary front of fifteen
kilometers. the division was sent to
the Champagne, where, with General
Gourauds army. 1t helped meet the
German drive Of July 10 north OF
Suippes, when Gouraud held the fierce
German onslaught on the line from
which it started.
From the Champagne, the Rainbow
division went to the Chateau Thierry
region. where it distinguished itself
in crossing the Ourcq river. capturing
Sergy. Seringes. villers-sur-F ere. and
Nesle, making total advance ow six
teen kilometers.
Sent to Arsonns Sector.
After receiving requirements the di-
vision went to the Toul sector, where
it took part in the reduction Of the St.
Mihiel salient by the FIRST American
army After making an advance Of
twenty kilometers the Rainbow divi-
sion turned it's sector over to newer
troops and came to the Argonne sector
where 1t was assigned to the tough
est job yst-the piercing Of the Kriem-
hide stellung, with its apex in the re-
yion OF the Cote de Chatillon where 1t
took Hill 2ss after being told it could
not be done.
This American division has fought
and taken prisoners from twenty-six
enemy divisions, including three Prus-
sion guard divisions and one Austrian
division. and also prisoners from nine
teen independent German units.
Have Met Is Foo Divisions.
have met the Forty-seccnd to their
sorrow: The First guard. Third guard,
Fourth guard, Thirteenth. Twenty
eighth. Fourteenth. Forty first. Fifty
second. Ninety sixth, One Hundred and
Second, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth.
Two Hundred and First, Two Hundred
and Sixteenth. Two Hundred and
Twenty seventh. Two Hundred and
Thirty third. Fifth landwehr. Eighth
landwehr. Tenth landwehr. Twenty
first landwehr. Seventy seventh re-
serve. Sixth Bavarian reserve. Thirty
fifth Austro- Hungarian division. and
the following independent units: The
Third, Thirteenth, Forty second. Fifty
first. Sixty-fifth, and Seventy-first
Iandwehr, foot artillery regiments, the
Fifteenth Ersatz artillery battalion.
Fourteenth Sturm battalion, Sixteenth
sharpshooters machine gun battalion.
Fourth minnenwerfer battalion, Sixty
seventh and Ninety seventh labor bat
talon, Two Hundred and Sixteenth ag-
riculture battalion, Sesentietth sound
ranging troops. Twenty railway
section. and Thirteenth. Ludwigs- Burg
regiment.