I am looking for more information on the 126th Machine Gun Battalion in WW1.
Relative fought for them - Paul J. Pszenitski and interested in finding more information
on the unit he served on.
I am looking for more information on the 126th Machine Gun Battalion in WW1.
Relative fought for them - Paul J. Pszenitski and interested in finding more information
on the unit he served on.
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We searched the National Archives Catalog and located the series titled Records of Machine Gun Battalions, 1917 - 1920 (NM-91 1256) within the Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I) (Record Group 120) that include the records of the 126th Machine Gun Battalion in boxes 257-258. For more information about these non-digitized records, please contact the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference (RR2R) via email at archives2reference@nara.gov.
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Thank you so much!
I assume you know that the 126th Machine Gun Battalion was part of the 34th Division.
The Army Center of Military History has several publications on World War I that may be of interest to you.
See page 205 on in the World War I Order of Battle Volume II, here:
https://history.army.mil/html/books/023/23-2/CMH_Pub_23-2.pdf
It appears they didn't do very much. They arrived in France on 24 October 1918 (the war, of course, ended on 11 November 1918), and was stripped to be used as replacements.
Thank you - Good to know and I will check this out