The 42nd Infantry Division ended its service in WWI in May 1919. According to Spencer, it was because of that casualty rate the division has the patch it has today.

Twenty-five members of the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division, which is headquartered in Troy, headed to France on Monday, July 23 to take part in a week of World War I ...

U.S. Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 165th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division, pass through the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany as they assume occupation duties on Dec. 13, 1918.

Officials say 25 members of the Troy-based 42nd Infantry Division will head to France. The division, formed in 1917, is known as "the Rainbow Division," because it includes soldiers from 26 states.

The 165th Infantry, for example, crossing open ground and facing flanking fire, had only 186 soldiers remaining in its 1st Battalion, 480 in the 2nd Battalion, and 496 in the 3rd Battalion.

U.S. Maj. Gen. Steve Ferrari, 42nd Infantry Division commander, and Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, both gave speeches, quoting poet and 42nd Division soldier Sgt. Joyce ...

Later, the 4th Infantry was combined with other National Guard units across America to make the 42nd Infantry Division of the United States Army.

July 17, 1918: A wounded soldier is carried to the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division's triage station near Suippes, France during the Second Battle of the Marne. Army 2nd Lt. Donald A. McClure ...

Veterans of the 42nd U.S. Infantry Rainbow Division laid a wreath at a Camp Mills monument in Garden City last week to recognize the Rainbow Division troops that gathered at the camp during the war.

TROY, N.Y. (WRGB) - A group of New York Army National Guard members based in Troy are in France participating in ceremonies observing the 100th anniversary of World War I.The Troy-based 42nd ...