The 32nd Division in the World War, 1917-1919 #221449

And so it came — so it was ordered by the powers at Wash ington, as though ordained of the God of Battles himself, Mich igan and Wisconsin were destined in the most destructive, stupendous war the world has ever known, out of a combina tion of 48 states and heaven only knows how many possibilities, to be linked, not as had been their fathers, in a single brigade of some men, but in a huge division, built upon modern lines to a strength of almost every man of whom at the outset hailed from those sister states of the now Middle West.