Historic Hempstead Plains - Nassau County Long Island

CAMP Albert L. Mills 1917 - 1919 WWI
"The birthplace of the 42nd Rainbow Division."

42ND RAINBOW DIVISION

    83RD   INFANTRY BRIGADE             84TH INFANTRY BRIGADE
    _________________________________   ____________________________
   165th   Infantry New York           167th Infantry Alabama
   166th   Infantry Ohio               168th Infantry Iowa
   150th   machine gun battalion Wisc. 151st Machine gun battalion GA.
   149th   machine gun Battalion  Pa.


    67th FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE
    ______________________________________________
   149th Field Artillery 75mm           Illinois
   150th Field Artillery 155mm howitzer Indiana
   151st Field Artillery 75mm           Minnesota
   117th Headquarters                   Louisianna
   117th Engineers                      California and South Carolina
   117th Field Signal battalion         Mississippi
   117th Train HQ military police       Virginia
   117th ammunition train               Kansas
   117th supply train                   Texas
   117th trench mortar battalion        Maryland
   117th Engineers                      North Carolina


   AMBULANCE              FIELD HOSPITAL
   ________________       ________________
  165th New Jersey        165th D.C.
  166th Tenn.             166th Nebraska
  167th Oklahoma          167th Oregon
  168th Michigan          168th Colorado
  
STATISTICS
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 27000 men from National Guard outfits from 26 states
 and Washington DC.
  2950 killed in action. 

 13292 wounded in action.

	

		

			
SOURCE - taken from the Camp Mills monument at Commercial ave 
and Clinton road Garden City New York. The Camp Mills monument 

			
was dedicated in 1944.
		
	

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