Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
$4,000 Veterans Due
To Reach West Coast
1oday;23,OOO in East
BY the Associated Pres,. ],

BY the Associated Press.
Almost $4,000 servicemen ar,
scheduled to arrive at three Eas
Coast and six West Coast ports to.
day aboard II troop-carrying yes,
sells. OF the total. 80, 600 will land al
Pacific ports and $4,000 in the East
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-India Victory (dus
Yesterday, 1887 troops, includin.
elements of the Sd Battalion, 118tt
Infantry Regiment and seth Tank
Destroyer Battalion
U. S. S. Washington, / ,567 troops
including personnel from Head
quarters Company, Service Com
pany apd Antitank Company, 354th
Infantry Regiment; - Headquarters
and Headquarters Detachment
314th Medical Battalion; Company
K, 355th Infantry Regiment.
U. s. s. Gen. Hodges. 3,2l7 troops
including personnel of l53d Quar-
termaster Battalion. 3649th. 3650th
365lst Quartermaster Truck Com
panies; 3479th Ordnance Motor
Auto Maintenance Company.
James F. Rhodes, 616 troops, in
Guiding detachment of Hist Engi-
reer Combat Battalion.
Miscellaneous troops on follow
ing: Athos II, 3,072:. George Wood
ward from Marseille, SOL; Tristram
Dalton from LIE Havre, $50: Daniel
H. Hill from LIE Havre, 568; Thomas
Johnson from LIE Havre, 631 Pitts
burgh Seam from Antwerp, 5; Will
liam Rayburn from Southampton
"a: r. Walton Moore from Swansea,
Is; Eli Whitney, IS; Exmoor from
Antwerp. IT.
At Boston-Antioch Victory (due
yesterday 1893 troops, including
3858th, 3S96th, 657th Quartermaster
Gas supply Companies; 4409th
Quartermaster Service Company;
89ath Tank Destroyer Battalion;
4228th Quartermaster Sterilization
Company; 405oth Quartermaster
Truck Company.
Lambert Cadwaiader (due yester-
day. 576 troops, including the 755th
Railway Shop Battalion.
Echequer, l.646 troops, including
Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 358th Infantry Regiment;
Headquarters and Headquarters
Company. LIST Battalion, 35Sth In
fantry Regiment; postal and ad-
vance elements, 26tn Division; 111th
Engineer Combat Battalion.
Fayetteville Victory, 1884 troops,
including 834th Engineer Battalion
(ayiation); Company l., 358th IN
fantry Regiment. and medical de-
tachment, Company A, 359th Infan-
try Regiment.
Costa Rica Victory, 1859 troops,
including medical detachment, 358th
Infantry Regiment; Headquarters
and Headquarters Company, 3rd
Battalion, 358th Infantry Regiment;
790th Ordnance Light Maintenance
Company; Anti-Tank Company,
Company H, Company L, 359th In
fantry Regiment; Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, LIST and 3rd
Battalions, 359th Infantry Regi-
ment; 4olst Signal Company (avia-
tom.
Miscellaneous troops on following !.
Waterbury Victory from Antwerp,
1922; Irwin S. Cobb from Leghorn,
80; John Thomas from Sydney, Aus
tralia, 81; Victor Herbert from
Marseilles, Is; John Merrick from
Antwerp, 81; Thomas Marshall from
Antwerp, $40; joaquin Miller from
Antwerp. 635.
At Newport News-Benjamin Mi
Ian, 555 troops. including Company
K. 141st Infantry Regiment; Com
pany A, 143d Infantry Regiment;
Service Company. 143d Infantry
Regiment.
Mayo Brothers, 56s troops, in
Guiding the 689th Field Artillery
Battalion.
Elroy Alfaro, "a miscellaneous
troops.
At San Observation-Disclosures
personnel on following: Gen. Brew
ster from Pearl Harbor, 1924: Sea
Partridge from Manila, 2,007;
Dickens from Leyte. 1907; Grafton
from Guam, l,45S in Navy.
At San Diego-A total of 1889
passengers on attack transport
Sheridan, destroyer minesweepers
Macomh, Fitch, LETTERS, Gheradi,
Ellyson; Ism, 90; LIST, 20; pro-
vision ship Boreas, destroyer trans
port Reeves; LCIs, AT, 621, 623,
625, 634, 636, 637, So7, 300, $40; Ism,
LOT, and supply ship Luna.
At Portland, Oreg.-Miscellaneous
personnel on Saugus from Leyte,
2,483; Chickasaw from Pearl Har-
Dor, 6.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. per-
sonnet on U. S. S. Claremont from
Palaui, LOTS; Toloa from Adak,
IA; U. S. S. Hydrus from Shang-
hal, 500; U. S. S. Fillmore from
Korea, 1,069; U. S. S. Mellette from
Okinawa, 2,069: U. S. S. Alshain
from Pearl Harbor, Isl; U. S. S.
Rainier from Okinawa, 139.
At Takoma, Wash.--Lurline from
Nagoya, 1000; U. S. S. Freestone
from Nagoya, 1916.
At Los Observation-Disclosures
personnel on John Hay from Batan-
COS (due yesterday, 805; Goodhue
from Manila (due yesterday, 1852;
Robert Fechner (due yesterday
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