Evening star., 1945-11-29
|41,900 Veterans Due
Home Today From
Europe and Pacific
BY tie Associated Press.


More than $500 service per-
sonel is scheduled to arrive today
at three East Coast ports, while at
six West Coast ports approximately
10000 troops are expected.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Carrier Enterprise,
1868 troops, including 33d and 349th
Bomb Squadrons, ,429th Fighter
Group, 32Sth Air Service Squadron,
434th Fighter Squadron, 836th and
837th Air Engineer Squadrons, 95th
and Goth Air Depot Groups, 984th
Military Police Company; l,694th
Ordnance Company, 7slth Chem
ical Depot Company; 557th Anti
aircraft Battalion, Headquarters De-
tachment, 490th Port Battalion,
3,20Sth Quartermaster Service Conn.,
pany. i
Lewiston Victory, l,947 troops, in
Guiding 747th Engineer Equipment
Company, 344th Engineer General
Service Regiment, Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, l,l52d En-.
gineer Combat Group, 499th and
5ooth Medical Collecting Companies
Cruiser Philadelphia, 1910 troops
including So3d Tank Destroyer Bat.
talon. 3,263d and 4,177th Quarter
master Service Companies, 426th
Engineer Dump Truck Company.
Cruiser Portland, 1,245 troops, in.
Guiding 634th Tank Destroyer Bat.
talon; 37l1th and 39llth Quarter.
master Truck Companies; 444tf
Ordnance Heavy Automotive Main.
tenance Company.
Hampden Sydney Victory. l,941
troops, including 1st Battalion, 289tf
Infantry Regiment; Company H Of
29lst Infantry Regiment.
E. B. Alexander, 5,168 troops, in.
Guiding 580th Antiaircraft Battalion
4I5Oth and 3252d Quartermastel
Service Companies; 77lst and S02e
Tank Destroyer Battalion; 656th
Field Artillery Battalion; 307tf
Quartermaster Railhead Company
306 WACS.
Hilary Herbert, 557 troops, includ.
ing 3482d Ordnance Company; 50Stf
Engineer Light Pontoon Company
Lyman Abbott, 53l troops, including
29lst Field Artillery Observation
Battalion; 994th Engineer Treadway
Bridge Company.
A total Of 1923 troops on foul
transports.
At Boston Howard Victory
l $40 troops, including 3,0l4th an<
3,027th Qusrtermaster Bakery Com
panies, 662d Field Artillery Bat
talon, high-score personnel ant
WACS.
Bienville, 1888 troops, including
64th Military Police Company. Typ
C; Headquarters and Headquarter
Detachment, 272d Ordnance Serv
ice Battalion, 144th, l47th, 149th
497th Ordnance Motor Vehicle As
sembly Companies; 943d Ordnanc,
Motor Vehicle Distributing Com
pany, 10th and 977th Ordnance
Depot Companies, 420th Ordnanc,
Evacuation Company.
Smith Victory. 1880 troops, In
cluding 443d Medical Collecting
Company, 763d Clearing Company
10th Engineer Base Depot Com
pany, 43lst Ordnance Motor We
hicle Assembly Company, high scor,
and Navy personnel and thre'
women State Department employees
Kokomo Victory, l.6s2 troops. in
cluding 182d and 255th Field Artil
lery Battalions, 22eth Port Com.
pany, Headquarters and Headquar'
ters Company, 704th Railway Crane
Division, 4,043d Quartermastel
Truck Company, some WACs.
Lesyos Victory, 81 miscellaneou
Army personnel. .-.-
At Newport News-70 fniscellane
Gus troops on three vessels.
At San Ddego-6l5 Navy, Marin,
personnel on two ships. H.
At Los Angeles-Six vessels will
1881 Army, Navy personnel ant
some repatriates. 49,. .s.t.as4 -.
At San Francisco-3,923 miscel
laneous personnel aboard IA vessels
At Tacoma-1,097 troops on on,
ship.
At Seattle-6,s71 Army, Navy per
sonnel on three ships.
At Portland-l,l67 miscellaneous
troops on two vessels.