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THIRTY THOUSAND OFFICERS AND MEN AT CAMP CUSTER, BATTLE CREEK, 

 MICHIGAN, FORMED THIS HUMAN UNITED STATES SHIELD 



Two divisions were organized at'Camp Custer — the Eighty-fifth (No. 8>2), which reached 

 France and served as a depot division at Cosnes, sending 3,948 replacements to the front, 

 and the Fourteenth, or "Wolverine," Division (No. 54), which was kept in this country, 

 owing to the ravages of the influenza epidemic, more than 10.000 cases developing at this 

 camp, resulting in 660 deaths. One infantry regiment of the Eighty-fifth Division, the Three 

 Hundred and Thirty-ninth, served in northern Russia. 



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