Editing 101st Airborne Division (section)

=== World War I ===

On 23 July 1918, the [[United States Department of War|War Department]] directed the organization of the 101st Division in the [[National Army (USA)|National Army]] at [[Camp Shelby]], [[Mississippi]], under the supervision of camp commander Brigadier General [[Roy Hoffman (United States Army officer)|Roy Hoffman]].<ref>{{cite news |date=October 31, 1918 |title=New Division Forming at Shelby |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-herald-division/129874333/ |work=[[The Daily Herald (Gulfport)|The Daily Herald]] |location=Gulfport, MS |page=5 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Plans called for the division to include a headquarters, headquarters troop, the 201st Infantry Brigade (401st and 402nd Infantry Regiments and 377th Machine Gun Battalion), 202nd Infantry Brigade (403rd and 404th Infantry Regiments and 378th Machine Gun Battalion), 376th Machine Gun Battalion, 176th Field Artillery Brigade (376th-378th Field Artillery Regiments and 27th Trench Mortar Battery), 326th Engineers, 626th Field Signal Battalion, and 326th Train Headquarters and Military Police (Ammunition, Engineer, Sanitary, and Supply Trains). It was intended that the 201st Infantry Brigade would be organized in France from the 58th and 59th Pioneer Infantry Regiments.

The 27th Trench Mortar Battery was formed at [[Camp Bowie]], [[Texas]], in August 1918 and was assigned to the 176th Field Artillery Brigade, but never ended up joining. The organization of the division began in October and Colonel Patrick H. Mullay was named division chief of staff on 2 November, but organization never progressed beyond the formation of the division headquarters and preliminary preparations for the receipt of [[Selective Service Act of 1917|Selective Service men]]. After the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918]], the 101st Division was ordered demobilized on 30 November 1918, being completed on 11 December.<ref>{{cite book |date=1988|title=Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War |volume=3, Part 2|location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Center of Military History, United States Army |pages=669–670}}</ref><ref name="101HHClineage">{{cite web |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/101abd.htm |title=Lineage and Honors Information: Divisions |website=U.S. Army Center of Military History |access-date=14 March 2012 |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001223529/https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/101abd.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>