“Every type was represented – the gunman and the gangster, the student and the clerk, the laborer and the loafer, the daily plodder, the lawyer,” the division history says In the summer and fall of 1917, New Yorker’s fell in love with the New York National Guard’s 27th Division, and the 42nd Division-organized from the … Continue reading 77th Division – New York City’s own – organized and trained on Long Island in 1917-18