High Lights in the History of the
         Thirty-Second Division
   Six months  under fire-from May  to November, 1918, with but 10 days in a
rest area.
   Fought  on five fronts in three major offensives-the Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne
and Meuse-Argonne.
   Losses-14,000  casualties from all causes.
   Met and vanquished 33 German Divisions from which 2,153 prisoners were taken.
   Gained  38 kilometers in four attacks and repulsed every enemy counter attack.
  'In action east of the Meuse when the Armistice was signed.
   Marched  300 kilometers to the Rhine as front line element of the Third TJ. S.
Army  and occupied for four months the center sector in the Coblenz bridge-head,
holding C3 towns and 400 square kilometers of territory.
   First American  troops to set foot on German soil-in Alsace in May, 1918;
captured Fismes in the Marne offensive after an advance of 19 kilometers in seven
days;  fought in the Oise-Aisne offensive as the only American unit in General
Mangin's famous  Tenth French Army,  breaking the German  line which protected
the Chemin des Dames;  twice in the line in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, fighting
continuously for 20 days, penetrating the Kriemhilde Stellung, crossing the Meuse
and starting drive to flank Metz.
   Over  800 officers and men decorated by American, French and Belgian govern-
ments.  The  colors of all four Infantry Regiments, three Artillery Regiments, and
three Machine Gun  Battalions wear the Ci-oix de Guerre of the Republic of France
while every flag and standard in the Division has four American battle bands.
   Composed  of Wisconsin anoT Michigan National Guardsmen;  insignia a Red
Arrow, signifying that the Division shot through every line the enemy put before
it; given the name of "Les Terribles" by the French; commanded in all its actions
by Major General Wm. G. Haan  and in the Army of Occupation by Major General
Wm.  Lassiter.
   Arrived in France in February, 1918, being the sixth Division to join the A. E.
F.  Left Germany, Homeward  Bound, in April, 1919. Arrived in tlie United States
and demobilized in May.