NINTH DIVISION COMES HOME Part 1

Description

Summary: VS, troopship passing camera; deck crowded with service men returning to the US. LS, decorated pier. Sign reads, "Welcome home, Well Done". CU, banner "10th Armored Tiger Div, Bastogne". VS, soldiers carrying barracks bags debark. A few servicewomen are among them. Pan, MSs, CUs, faces of the returnees. Soldiers carry a wooden sign: "Cross the Rhine With Dry Feet, Courtesy of the 9th Div". Soldiers enter area over which hangs a welcome home sign. MCU, man opens barracks bag and removes a live puppy. STRETCHER CASES FROM ETO BEING GREETED BY FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.: LaGuardia Field, NY: 08/21/1945: LS, C-54 is unloaded. Crowd in fg. CUs, litter patients are lowered from plane. CUs, mothers, wives, friends, kissing injured men. MSs, men lying on stretchers inside C-54. MSs, CUs, men are lowered from plane by forklift truck. Families greet them. CUs, wounded men kissing their wives and friends.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities