152d Depot Brigade (United States)

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Secretary of War Newton Baker authorized Major General Franklin Bell to organize the 152d Depot Brigade, an element of the 77th Division.Wilson, 1998, p. 60. The brigade was later detached and placed directly under Camp Upton, New York, as an independent unit.Organizations and Activities of the War Department, 1949, p. 1277.Territorial Departments, Tactical Divisions Organized in 1918, and Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1949, pp. 843-45Directory of Troops, 1949, p. 1277. The depot brigade filled two purposes: one was to act as a receiving unit for men sent to camps by local draft boards;WD Cir 23, 1918, p. 7.Wilson, 1998, p. 76n32. the other was to train replacements for the American Expeditionary Forces.

Irving Berlin wrote the musical revue "Yip Yip Yaphank", including the song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while assigned to a unit of the 152d Depot Brigade at Camp Upton in 1918.Laurence Bergreen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZgJu3UKRfIC&dq=%22irving+berlin%22+%22152nd+depot+brigade%22&pg=PA150 As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin], 1996, page 150

The role of depot brigades was to receive and organize recruits, provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training, and then send them to France to fight on the front lines. The depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and completed their out processing and discharges. Depot brigades were often organized, reorganized, and inactivated as requirements to receive and train troops rose and fell, and later ebbed and flowed during post-war demobilization.{{cite book |author=U.S. Army Adjutant General |date=1918 |title=Training Circular No. 23, Training Regulations for Depot Brigades |url=https://auls.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=All&i=5249962&ti=0 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=U.S. Department of War |page=Table of Contents |via=Army University Library System}}

Depot brigades were organized into numbered battalions (1st Battalion, 2d Battalion, etc.), which in turn were organized into numbered companies.Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., [https://books.google.com/books?id=LAhNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22152nd+depot+brigade%22+ Memorial to the Employees of the Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. Who Served at Home and Abroad in the Great World War], 1920, pages 42, 47. Harold A. Chalford is listed as a member of 31st Company, 8th Battalion, 152d Depot Brigade. Ernest O. Sandstrom is named as a member of 9th Company, 3d Battalion, 152d Depot Brigade The major U.S. depot brigades organized for World War I, which remained active until after post-war demobilization included: 151st (Camp Devens); 152d (Camp Upton); 153d (Camp Dix); 154th (Camp Meade); 155th (Camp Lee); 156th (Camp Jackson); 157th (Camp Gordon); 158th (Camp Sherman); 159th (Camp Taylor); 160th (Camp Custer); 161st (Camp Grant); 162d (Camp Pike); 163d (Camp Dodge); 164th (Camp Funston); 165th (Camp Travis); 166th (Camp Lewis); and 167th (Camp McClellan).{{cite news |date=December 1, 1917 |title=List of General Officers and Their Commands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA674 |work=Army and Navy Register |location=Washington, DC |page=674}}

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• {{Cite book |title=Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War |volume=3, Part 1: Center of Military History Publication No. 23-3—Zone of the Interior: Organizations and Activities of the War Department |publisher=U.S. Dept. of the Army |location=Washington, DC |date=1988 |orig-year=1st. pub. GPO: 1949}}
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• {{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Alexander F. |last2=Belmonte |first2=Peter L. |year=2022 |title=United States Army Depot Brigades in World War I |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-1-4766-8205-1 |oclc=

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