United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd

found: NUCMC data from Ohio Hist. Soc. for Miner, H.W. Papers, 1912-1930(42nd Division, 167th Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces)

found: LC database, Feb. 27, 1998(hdg.: United States. Army. 42d Division; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd)

found: 29 April 1945, Dachau, 1998:CIP t.p. (Rainbow) galley (42d [sic] Rainbow Infantry Division; U.S. Army's 42nd "Rainbow" Division; 42d [sic] Infantry Division of the United States Army; formed in Apr. 1917 and was made up of Nat. Guard units from 26 states & District of Columbia; known as Rainbow Division because of remark made about colorful state flags of units composing it; served in WWI and during combat in U.S. Seventh Army in WWII; after VE Day was major part of U.S. occupation forces in Austria)

found: Armies, Corps, Divisions and Separate Brigades, 1987:p. 357 (42d Infantry Division (Rainbow) . . . Lineage and Honors: Constituted 14 August 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 42d Division; organized 5 September 1917 at Camp Mills, New York; demobilized 9 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey; reconstituted 5 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 42nd Infantry Division)