Reel Number: 200555-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1946
Country: USA
Location: La Guardia Field,New York
TC Begins: 02:00:10
TC Ends: 02:10:25
Duration: 00:10:15
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9th Division Comes Home Various shots troopship passing camera, deck crowded with service men returning to the US. P176 Decorated pier. Sign reads, "Welcome home, Well Done". 02:02:55: CU, banner "10th Armored Tiger Div, Bastogne". VS, soldiers carrying kit bags debark. A few servicewomen are among them. Pan, MSs, CUs, faces of the returnees. Young woman hugs soldier. 02:04:52: Soldiers carry a wooden sign: "Cross the Rhine With Dry Feet, Courtesy of the 9th Div". Troops march down road, soldiers enter area over which hangs a welcome home sign. MCU, man opens kit bag and removes a live puppy. 02:05:45: Wounded troops return home. 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. Press holding out microphones to injured men.