Evening star., 1946-01-05

81 Shlps, Carrying
$4,000 Troops, Are
Due 10 Arrive Today
By the Associated Press.
At least 81 ships bringing more
than 5000 veterans home from the
wars are scheduled to arrive at East
and West coast ports today.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Wasp, from South
ampton, $500 troops and % Navy
personnel, including 1st, I'd and Sd
Battaliorls, 353d Infantry Regiment
89th Division; 2006th Ordnance
Maintenance Company, 1109th Quar-
termaster Company, 248lst Quarter
master Aviation Truck Company
1043d Air Maintenance Squadron;
Companies G and D, lst Battalion,
also elements of I'd Battalion, 355th
Infantry Regiment, 905th Field Ar
tillery Battalion, Both Cavalry Re-
connaissance Group, 694th Quarter
master Truck Company.
General Anderson, from Calcutta,
5,234 troops including 9th Chemical
Base Depot Company; 2770th En-
gineer Base Reproduction Company
3089th Quartermaster Refrigerator
Company, 830th Ordnance Base De-
pot Company, 3429th Ordnance Me-
dunn Automotive Maintenance Com
pany, 3001st Ordnance Base Depot
Company, seth Quartermaster
Railhead Company, 240th, 258th
526th and 672d Port Companies.
General Black from Calcutta, 3,152
troops including personnel of 9Th
436th, 492d, 493d, 374th, 375th, 425th
Bomb Squadron: 7th and 308th
Bomb Groups; 384th Antiaircraft
Air Wing Battalion; goth Station
Hospital; I'd Air Cargo Resupply
Squadron; 3581st Ordnance Medium
Automotive Maintenance Company
3725th Quartermaster Truck Com
Ipany; 981St Quartermaster Supply
Depot; oath Quartermaster Laun-
dry Platoon.
Lehigh Victory from LIE Havre
1882 troops including 256th Port
Company; 4232d Quartermaster
Stevedore Company: 35s5th Quar-
termaster Truck Company; 752d
Engineer Pontoons Supply Com
pany.
Rushville Victory from LIE Havre
1904 troops including 240th General
Hospital, less nurses; 238th and
239th Port Companies.
John Morehead from Antwerp
60S troops including 375th and 925tt
Field Artillery Battalion of 100lh
Infantry Division.
Lucretia Mott from LIE Havre, SO;
troops and one Navy personnel in
cluding 88th and 93d QuartermaStel
Railhead Company; 680th Engineer
Topography Company; Headquar.
ters and Headquarters Detachment
of 494th Port Battalion; Headauar.
ters Company of 659th Engineer
Base Topography Battalion; 3002e
Ordnance Base Depot Company.
Walter E. ~ss....,,,,-.' - rom LIE Havre
572 troops including headquarters oi
397th Heavy Bomb Group.
Also mis- :ellaneous troops on fol.
lowing: q S. S. Mo Ia Island from
Cristobal, sI7; Thorn Is F. Meaghel
from London, 90; 3ebecca Boone
from Marseilies. q; James Miller
from Antwerp, 49, James A. Drair
from Liverpool, Is; Abraham Clerl
from LIE Havre, 81; Vernon S. Hood
. due yesterday from LIE Havre. 8.
At Newport News-Hannis Taylor
633 troops including 73d Engineer
, Light Pontoon Company; 42l0tl
Quartermaster Service Company
, 75lst Quartermaster Truck Com
pany.
, Elbridge Gerry, SIS troops includ
| ing 18TH Field Artillery Battalion.
| John Fiske, SGT troops including
, 549th Field Artillery Battalion.
. James Hoban, 588 troops includint
546th Field Artillery Battalion.
|, George Sharswood, Ill troops
chiefly air forces personnel.
At Miscellaneous person
mel on the following: USS Basiliar
from Shanghai and Pearl Harbor
20 Army, 472 Navy; USAT Branch
from Alaska, 1044, Army
At San Francisco-Miscellaneou.
personnel on following: TaZewel
from Subio, 2,027 Navy: Matsonis
from Yokohama, 1854, Army; JANE
Adams from Manila, l,046, Army
Colusa from Australia, 756, Navy
284, Army; Admiralty Islands, 949
Navy; Rushmore from Samar, a.
Navy; Gosselin, ITO, Navy; Tallulaf
from Pearl Harbor, los, Navy; st
Mary's, 1856.
At Los Angeles-Miscellaneou;
personnel on following: Kenneth
Mckenzie from Yokohama, 49
George w. Julian from Hollandia
$50; Lanier from Hollandia, 2,132
Eagle Wing from Honolulu, IA: j. P
Roberts from Pearl Harbor, 1877.
At San Diego-Assault transport
Mifflin from Sasbeo, Japan, 1887
Navy, and elements of the 5th Ma
5 rine Division. jeremiah M. Rusl
] from Guam, l8 Marines.