Views from a boat circling around the American troop transport ship, USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) while she is underway carrying troops of the American 9th Armored Division back home from Germany following World War 2. The opening scene shows the Mount Vernon from her forward port side as she passes. Series of portside closeups as the ship passes. Next she is viewed from starboard. The Mount Vernon is filled with troops returning home who can be seen along her top decks.
The U.S. troopship, USS Mount Vernon (APA-22) is seen underway as viewed portside from another boat. Film stops momentarily and resumes showing a different troopship, the USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) in a harbor. Camera pans across her deck, from a small boat below. Sailors and soldiers line her railings. Several banners on her upper deck identify units aboard. Most notable is a large one for the U.S. 10th Armored Division, showing their Division patch and the slogan "Terrify and Destroy." View of people waiting on the receiving pier, which is decked out in stars, bars, and flags, plus a sign reading "welcome Home, Well Done."
The troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) is seen being guided by tugboats as she makes her way to the pier, while carrying U.S. troops home from Europe at end of World War 2. View of the upper deck jammed with soldiers, waving happily. A large banner is displayed showing Division patch of the Tenth Armored "Tiger" Division and the key places they operated in Germany as the first im General Patton's Third Army in Germany, during the war. More views of soldiers waving. Many stand in the ship's lifeboats. Troops carrying their gear in dufflebags as they disembark from the ship. Friends and relatives standing behind a fence waiting to greet the returning soldiers.
Several U.S. Army officers pose, upon arriving home from Europe on the troopship, USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). Several uniformed women officers descend the gangplank from the ship, followed by soldiers carrying their personal gear in dufflebags. To the side of the gangway, a banner for the 10th Armored Division is partially seen. The troops disembark single file. View towards the ship superstructure shows it filled with those waiting to leave. A soldier with a roster stands at the top of the gangway, checking off names of soldiers as they pass.
Troops coming home to America at the end of World War 2. An Army Sergeant just returned from Europe, at the end of World War 2, stands on a pier, beside the troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). With him is a woman who wearing a jacket emblazoned with many emblems of U.S. military units. The sergeant places the insignia of the 10th Armored Division on her back. They hug and laugh. Scene shifts completely to 9th Armored Division soldiers at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Virginia, holding the large sign originally placed on the Ludendorff bridge in Germany, by C Company of the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion during the war. It reads:"Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th Arm'd Div." The soldiers carry the sign past a wooden building at the camp. Change of scene shows Ninth Armored Division troops arriving by train at Camp Patrick Henry. They march in loose order through a Victory Arch bearing words: "Welcome Home" at an entrance to the camp. More views of the troops marching into Camp Patrick Henry, where the 9th Division is to be deactivated. In the camp grounds, Sergeant reaches into his dufflebag and takes out a small puppy. ( Note: Vehicles: seen in this clip include: MB GPW, and CCKW)
Stretcher cases from European Theater of Operation being greeted by families and friends at LaGuardia Field in New York, United States during World War II . U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-54 Skymaster being unloaded. Crowd in the foreground. Litter patients (US soldiers) being lowered from plane. Mothers, wives, and friends kissing injured men. Families greet wounded men.
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