Evening star., 1945-11-25
5000 Veterans Due
In U. 5. Today on
East, West Coasts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
More than $4,000 veterans are
scheduled to arrive today at three
East Coast ports and approximately
% 900 servicemen are to debark at
five West Coast harbors.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York, Europa, from South
ampton 6,157 troops, including
Headquarters and Headquarters De-
tachments, 1517th, 1518th, 1578th
Quartermaster Battalions and 1511th
Quartermaster Group; 307th Port
Company, 682d, 686th, 685th Cen
eral Hospital Complement units; /;
Gath Air Material Squadron: 449th
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion;
186th General Hospital; Headquar-
ters and Headquarters Squadron,
325th Air Service Group; 337th
Bombing Squadron; 182d General
Hospital.
Alhambra Victory, from Marseilles
1897 troops, including 22d Anti
Aircraft Battalion; 759th Railway
Operation Battalion; 116th Evacua-
ton Hospital.
Waycross Victory, from LIE Havre
1883 troops, including 49th Engi-
neers, c Battalion; 265th Port Com
pany; Headquarters and Headquar-
ters Battery, 203d Field Artillery
Battalion; 5lst Chemical Processing
Company; 762d Medical Collecting
Company, 764th Ambulance Com
pany; 3948th Quartermaster Truck
Company.
William Patterson, Amarillo VIC
tory, George Uhler, Thomas Aldrich,
Claymont Victory, Cape Barrow,
Fort Frelinghysen, Lakehurst
George Handley-3,174 miscellane-
GUS personnel.
George Washington, from LIE
Havre-6,809 troops, including Head
quarters and Headquarters Com
panies, 7th and 9th Armored
Groups: 776th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion, 83d Chemical Mortar Bat
talon with medics; 5O1st Quarter
master Railhead Company, 250th
Quartermaster Depot Company;
Headquarters, 18th Bombardment
Group; 34th, 37th, 95th, 432d, 456th
Bombing Squadrons: Sd Station
Hospital; 62d General Hospital;
3290th Signal Service Battalion
320th, 32lst Port Companies: 281st,
282d, 2S3d, 284th. 285th, 286th Ord
nance Ballistic Detachments:
WACS. Army nurses, civilians.
India Victory, from LIE Havre-
1878 troops, including s45th Field
Artillery Battalion with medics; 863d
Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion:
552d Field Artillery Battalion
WACS.
New Zealand Victory and Mary
Didge-42 miscellaneous troops.
At Newport News. H. Nichol-
son - $50 troops, including Head
quarters and Headquarters Detach-
ment, 10th Medical Battalion;
Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, 173d Medical Bat.
talon; 196th Field Artillery Bat
talon.
Wheaton Victory-1,9l5 troops, in
cludlng Chemical Salvage Com
pany; Headquarters and HeadQuar-
tiers Company, 18th Infantry Divi-
sion: I'd Battalion, 289th Infantry;
Sd Battalion. 28sth Infantry.
| Rufus Choate, Eldridge Gerry
Danile Huger. William Huger, WI
liam Blount -2,37S miscellaneous
troops.
At Los Angeles - Santa Cruz
Evangeline, Mormachawk, Colonel
Ellis, Colonel Peterson-4,043 mis-
tcellaneous personnel.
At San Francisco-Admiral Sims
Dutchess, Admiralty Island, Rankin
and other smaller craft-l0,11l mis-
cellaneous troops.
At San Diego-Destroyers Beatty
Dixon and Purvis; destroyer escorts
Lewis, Butler. Raymond and Clark;
Denebola. Escatawpa, cornel, Anag-
ma and Papaya-650 Navy and Ma
rine personnel.
At Seattle-L. NJ. Garrison. Agwi-
prince, Arenac 1850 Army and
Navy personnel.
At Tacoma-Admiral Coontz-4,-
748 American Division troops.