Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commandingJohnson, Harold Stanley
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Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commanding
Johnson, Harold Stanley
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd; World War, 1914-1918 -- Registers
ROSTER
_of the_
Rainbow Division
(Forty-Second)
MAJOR-GENERAL WM. A. MANN
COMMANDING
Copyright, 1917
Lieut. Harold Stanley Johnson
151st Field Artillery (1st Minn.)
TO OUR MOST WORTHY AND
EFFICIENT COMMANDER
MAJOR-GENERAL WM. A. MANN
_Edited and Compiled_
BY
LIEUT. HAROLD STANLEY JOHNSON
151st Field Artillery (1st Minn.)
EATON & GETTINGER, INC.
PRINTERS
263 Ninth Avenue, New York
FOREWORD
Having found, after three weeks in our mobilization camp, that there was
a great desire on the part of the officers and men of individual
organizations to become acquainted with their co-workers, and realizing
the necessity of personal contact for our mutual benefit to secure the
co-ordination of each branch of the service into a unit of the highest
possible efficiency, I have undertaken to compile this Roster. Any
success attained is due to the hearty co-operation of Major-General
William A. Mann, Colonel Douglass MacArthur, the Statistical Department
and Officers of Division Headquarters.
The Rainbow Division was so christened by Secretary of War Baker when he
assembled the official Forty-second because it represented organizations
from twenty-six States of the Union, embracing a territory from coast to
coast and from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.
In his selection, only those units which had shown marked ability making
them worthy of distinction were chosen, the majority having seen actual
service either in the Spanish-American War or during the more recent
border troubles. To be among them is an honor of which any man can
justly be proud; for being so chosen is significant of the proven
ability that our country appreciates. One hundred million people depend
upon the Rainbow Division to carry Old Glory to victory on the
battlefields of Europe. The division is selected to be among the first
to France and to be America’s representatives in the greatest struggle
of the ages.
May its career be as brilliant as the rainbow itself.
LIEUTENANT HAROLD STANLEY JOHNSON
151st Field Artillery (1st Minnesota)
_Camp Mills, Long Island
October 12, 1917_
Forty-Second Division
MAJOR-GENERAL WM. A. MANN, Commanding
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