Evening star., 1945-12-20
$4,000 Troops Due in West
And I'd, 400 in East Today
BY the Associated Press,

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By the Associated Press.
More than 14400 servicemen are
due today at three East Coast ports
aboard Is vessels, while at Pacific
Coast points nearly $4,000 troops
are scheduled to debark from AZ
troop carriers.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Richard Rush, due
yesterday, 581 troops, including
755th Field Artillery Battalion;
Thomas Johnson. 631 troops, in
cluding 32lsth and 448oth Quarter
master Service Companies: 3906th
Quartermaster Truck Company,
3slsth Quartermaster Gas Supply
Company.
Miscellaneous troops on following:
S. M. Babcock from Antwerp, 113;
Alexander Doniphan from Newport,
England, 10; James K. Walker from
Cardiff, Wales, 80; Mandan Victory
from Calcutta, due yesterday. IL;
Pearl Harbor from Barry, Wales,
due yesterday, q; Bodehamer from
Cardiff, n.
At Newport News-Pontotoc Vic
tory, due yesterday, 1.499 troops, in
cluding 575th Antiaircraft Auto
matte Weapons Battalion, ss7th
Field Artillery Battalion, 453d
Medical Collection Company.
Frederick Lykes, 2,76s troops, in
cluding Headquarters 36th Infantry
Division, 36th Quartermaster Com
pany, Medical Detachment, l43d
Infantry Regiment; Companies l.,
K, L, M, 143d Infantry Regiment;
l1lth Medical Battalion, 5ssth Bomb
Squadron, 26th Station Complement
Company, 7o5th Air Materiel Squad
ron.
Ponce de Leon, SCI troops, includ-
ing 152d Station Hospital; Reuben
Upton from Marseilles, due yes
terday, 81 miscellaneous.
At Boston-Alahambra Victory,
1888 troops, including 1lth and
59th Evacuation Hospital. 81st Cen
eral Hospital, 24sth and 2826th En-
gineer Combat Battalions; Sea
Scamp. 1882 troops, including 104th,
107th Evacuation Hospitals; l58th,
254th Engineer Combat Battalions;
55th General Hospital, 31st Mobile
Railroad Squadron, 1945th Quarter
master Truck Squad. ~ *
Henry Gibbins, 1893 troops, In
cluding 18th Field Hospital. Head
quarters and Headquarters Battery,
2O7th Antiaircraft Artillery Group,
s53d Field Artillery Battalion. Gath
Engineer General Service Regiment; /;
John Sergeant, 632 troops, including
266th Field Artillery Battalion.
Miscellaneous troops on following:
Irwin Mcdowell from Antwerp, 562;
Eugene Hale from LIE Havre, 579.
At San Diego-Miscellane serv-
ice personnel, all from Pearl Harbor,
on following: Attack transport
Pondera, 1,774 Marines and Navy,
including members of 5th Marine
Division; four LSMs with 9S Navy;
Lei, 797, with So Navy.
At Los Angeles-Miscellaneou
personnel on following: Hospital
ship Arcadia from Manila, 757 pa
tients: Marine Carp from Manila,
1924 Army; battleship Nevada, 1.166
troops, including units of the 458th
Bomb Squadron and 508th Engi-
neers Squadron; John Hay, from
Pearl Harbor, 8os; hospital ship
Thistle, from Pearl Harbor, $50 pa
tients, II Army; Lei 81. from Pearl
Harbor, 90; Albert J. BerreS, from
Pearl Harbor, %; Middleton, 1927;
George M. Randall from Yokohama,
500; Kristen from Saipan, IT; Ger
'vais from Luzon, 13.
At Portland, Observation-Disclosures
personnel, on following: Ormsby
from Okinawa, due yesterday, 1,735
Army, so Navy; Grundy, Jinsen,
total Its Army. So Navy.
At Tacoma, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
personnel on following: Marine
Devil from the China Burma India
theater, 2,663 Army; Collingsworth
from Korea, due yesterday, 1,433
Army; Crescent City from Okinawa,
1,13S Army; General Weigel from
Tokyo, 5000 Army
At San Francisco-Total Of 5.845
miscellaneous personnel on follow
ing: Audubon, from Manila, due
yesterday, LIT Navy, lot Army;
Fond du Lac, from Leyte, 1909
Navy; Salvador Brau, from Leyte,
s62 Army; E. A. Burnett, from
Leyte, 895 Army: Bettelgeuse, from
Pearl Harbor 185 Navy; John @.
Meldrum, from Fusan, 40 Navy; also
Charles Nordhoff, Napier. Pan
American Victory, Ism 227, BAT and
452, few each.
At observation-disclosures person.
mel on following. Anzio, from
Shanghai. lat Army, l,o4s Navy;
Uruguay, from Tokyo and Yoko-
hama, 5000 Army; Denali, from
Alaska, ITO Army; Hansford, from
Yokosuka, 1,675 Army; Gasconade,
from Nagoya, 999 Army; Oglethorpe,
from Hawaii, Al Army.
Victory Bond sales will not only
take care of immediate govern
mental costs, such as deployment