GIs Visiting Paris, Feb46

GIs Visiting Paris, Feb46 GIs reflected in window of Cafe de la Paix; talking w/ WACs seated at table. Group of GIs pose for civilian photographer in front of Palais de Chaillot (?). GIs taking each other’s pictures. Guide pointing out city. More picture taking on plaza & on terrace w/ Eiffel Tower behind. Walking w/ guide. Down steps and wait at street. 16:25:23 Several hundred GIs hold mass meeting about wanting to go home on the Place du Trocadero. Sgt. Raymond O. Redman speaking. LS of group. MPs watching. MS applauding. CU of speaker. MS of newspaperman Henry Wales (in army coat) writing notes. Pssing out leaflets & dispersing. CU speaking & CU listening. Laughing. Couple kissing. 16:28:10 Men w/ duffel bags leaving army tent city. Marching off to oard trucks. Writing in chalk “Going Home” on side of truck & climbing up. Large trucks pulling away w/ trailers full of GIs. 16:29:38 Men on dock at Marseilles, large transport ship Tusculum Victory docked next to two German blockhouses. Soldiers in MCU & boarding, Red Cross woman pases out packages. Up gangway. Ship slowly moving in water. Post-WWII Paris, France; Redeployment; Tourists; Sightseeing; 1940s;