The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-05-17
CITIZENS MILITARY
TRAINING CAMP

The young men who are selected to
attend the citizens military training
camp, which is to be held by the
Fourth Corps Area at Camp Jack
son, July 10Th to August 18th, will
have the opportunity to come in con-
tact with one of the most famous di-
visions of the regular army-"The
Fighting Fifth"
Selected units from ''The Fighting
Fifth" will give demonstrations to the
students who are fortunate enough to
attend this camp.
The infantry units will give dem
onstrations with hand grenades, 81
nm guns, stokes mortars, automatic
rifles, machine guns and tanks.
The field artillery will give dem
onstrations of tactics, technique and
armament of field artillery.
The coast artillery will give demon
strations of material, methods and
technique of coast artillery.
The engineers will give demonstra-
tions of constructing trenches and OBJ
stacles, demolitions, construction OF
various types of bridges, maps and
map making, and other military en-.
gineering poperations.
A brief history of the Fighting
Fifth" is as follows:
This division was organized il
1917 in accordance with the war de
partment's program for the rapid ex
pansion of the regular army for i'm
pending service in France.
The regiments designated to form
the division were the 9Th, 18th, 18th
and 61st Infantry; the 18th, goth ane
21st Field Artillery, and the 7th En-
gineers.<
Brigading the regiments was effect
ed about December 1917 The 9Th ant
18th Infantry regiments were the onl!
old organizations designated for tn,
Fifth division. Their history date
back to the close of the 18th century.
These two regiments with the 15tl
Machine Gun Battalion composed tn,
10th Brigade formed at Chickamaug'
Park, Ga. The Goth and 61st Infan
try regiments were organized a
Gettysburg, Pa, in June 1917. from de
: tachments from the 14th Machine Gu
Battalion and composed the 9th Bri
gade trained at Camp Greene, N. c.
: The artillery regiments were organ
lied at Camp Wilson, Texas, abou
June 1st, 1917, and trained at Cam
Camp Stanley. Leon Springs, Texas
The 7th Engineers were at Fort Leav
enworth, Kansas.
The major portion of the divisio
sailed the early part of April 1915
and division headquarters were estab
lished at LeHarvre, France. May 1st.
After short training period a
Bar-Sur-Aube the division moved int
the trenches in the Vosges, June 1st.
Hhe Fifth captured Frapelle in Au
gust and caused the Germans to max
thein first retrenchments in thei
southern sector in three years.
The division participated in the S
Mihiel drive in September and it en-
tered the Meuse-Argonne fight driy
ing the Boch to Bois de Rappes; er
tered a second time and was the firs
division to cross the Meuse rive
penetrating the territory east of tn
Meuse to a depth of approximate
ten miles when its drive came to a
end on Armistice Day.
The Fifth division captured 24O
prisoners, 98 pieces of artillery an
802 machine guns. 1t lost 1908 kille,
1915 wounded. and 90 prisoners. I
individuals in the Fifth division, 1e
distinguished service crosses wei
awarded.
The Fifth was one of the ten Anne,
lean divisions in the army of occup.
tion and was stationed in Luxembur
along the line of communication
the Third American army.
This division returned to the Unite
States in July 1919, and was stations
at Camp Gordon until November 1872