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Reorganization allocates Eighty-eighth division units to Iowa
Wartime mobilization plans assign a large stretch of Eighth U S Army reserve units to Iowa and surrounding states. Key officers and infantry, artillery, and engineer elements are designated to regional command posts with headquarters in Des Moines and Minneapolis, detailing battalions, regiments, and support units in the reorganized national army.
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Des Moines
Dec
U. 5
Lows
Minnesota
South Dakota
War Department
Wi ‘Ork
Harry O. W
Minneapolis
Minn
Ihe
Iard
Unis
Eighty Eighth Division
Williard
O. S. McCleery
Regular ‘Army
War “Department
M. RG
Iowa City
William Richard Mart
Inf. R. C
Waterloo
Three Hundred Forty-ninth Infantry
Worth
Mitchell
Floward
Winnestrdck
Allamakee
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Chickwin
Tie
Claytot
Franklin
Butler
Bremer
Hardin
Grundy
Black Hark
Buchanan Dekeware
Dubuque
Smith
James F. Barton
Charles A. Watroug
Perry
Three Hundred Sixty-fifth Engineer Regiment
Trent
iCol
George C, Parsona