The 79th Infantry Division (formerly known as the 79th Division) was an infantry formation of the United States Army Reserve in World Wars I and II. Since 2009, it has been active as the 79th Theater Sustainment Command. World War I Activated: August 1917 Overseas: July 1918 Major operations: Meuse-Argonne Casualties: Total-6,874 (KIA-1,151 ; WIA-5,723) Commanders: Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (25 August 1917), Brig. Gen. William Jones Nicholson (26 November 1917), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (17 February 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (16 April 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (22 May 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 June 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (28 June 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (23 July 1918), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (29 December 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (31 December 1918), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (19 January 1919), Brig. Gen. John S. Winn (2 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Andrew Hero Jr. (3 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (9 February 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (28 February 1919), brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (16 March 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (30 March 1919), Brig. Gen. Joseph S. Winn (4 May 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 May 1919). Returned to U.S.: May 1919 Inactivated: June 1919 Order of battle Headquarters, 79th Division 157th Infantry Brigade 313th Infantry Regiment 314th Infantry Regiment 311th Machine Gun Battalion 158th Infantry Brigade 315th Infantry Regiment 316th Infantry Regiment 312th Machine Gun Battalion 154th Field Artillery Brigade 310th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 311th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 312th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 304th Trench Mortar Battery 310th Machine Gun Battalion 304th Engineer Regiment 304th Field Signal Battalion Headquarters Troop, 79th Division 304th Train Headquarters and Military Police 304th Ammunition Train 304th Supply Train 304th Engineer Train 304th Sanitary Train 313th, 314th, 315th, and 316th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals Combat chronicle The division was first activated at Camp Meade, Maryland in August 1917, composed primarily of draftees from Maryland and Pennsylvania. After a year of training the division sailed overseas in July 1918. The 79th Division saw extensive combat in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive area where it earned the name of "Cross of Lorraine" for their defense of France. The division was inactivated June 1919 and returned to the United States. Throughout its entire World War I campaign, the division suffered 6,874 casualties