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40th Inf. baseball team WW1?


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Here is a real photo postcard of the baseball team of the Supply, Headquarters Co. of the 40th. Infantry. It is unmailed and has nothing written on the reverse.

 

The AZO stamp box on the back can be dated to 1918-1930.

 

The division was activated on 18 July 1917, as a National Guard division from the California, Nevada, and Utah Army National Guards. It was sent overseas on 3 August 1918. When the division arrived in France in August 1918, the German Army had just completed a series of offensives that started on 21 March and ended on 15 July 1918. It was decided that the new divisions would be used as depot divisions, supplying fresh troops to the more experienced combat divisions. Thus the division as a whole did not serve in combat, but many division personnel fought, notably Captain Nelson Miles Holderman, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The division returned to the United States on 30 June 1919 where it was deactivated. The division was reconstituted on 18 June 1926 with its headquarters in Berkeley. In 1937 the division headquarters was moved to Los Angeles.

 

So this photo was taken either in 1918-1919 or 1926-1930.

 

Paul

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Very nice & somewhat unusual card. The U.S. A.E.F. was heavily engaged in all types of sports just after the Armistice & throughout the years of occupation. There's all manner of unofficial medals floating around as testament to this fact.

 

Best, dpast32

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