Dutch Ship Lands
Pacific Veterans
in New York

    NEW YORK, Sept. 4. (AP)--The Dutch liner Bloemfontein, one of eight ships bringing more than 10,000 servicemen home from war to East Coast ports today, brought the first American troops to arrive in New York Harbor from the Southwest Pacific since the war's end.
    The following Army units arrived at East Coast ports today:
    AT NEW YORK (Aboard Bloemfontein)--858 troops, undesignated units. (Aboard William Wilkins)--110 miscellaneous troops. (Aboard Nick Stoner)--24 troops for reassignment or discharge. (Aboard Henry Wynkoop)--18 reassignment troops.
    (Aboard Gen. Brooke, originally due tomorrow)--4017 troops, including headquarters and base service squadrons of 459th, 470th, 471st, 497th and 460th air service groups; 63rd and 98th station complement squadrons; headquarters and headquarters detachment 2108th Ordnance Battalion; 435th Quartermaster Platoon; 334th Signal Company; headquarters and headquarters squadron 100th Fighter Wing; headquarters and headquarters squadron, 48th Fighter Group; 492nd, 493rd, 494th and 377th Fighter squadrons, and headquarters and headquarters squadron 362nd Fighter Group.
    AT BOSTON: (Aboard Bienville, originally due tomorrow)--2336 troops including the 605th, 1252nd, 1259th Engineer combat battalions; headquarters and headquarters detachment of 188th Quartermaster Battalion; 672nd, 695th Ordnance ammunition companies. (Aboard Gen. Bliss, originally due tomorrow)--3349 troops including headquarters and headquarters company of 16th and 20th tank destroyer groups; headquarters and headquarters company of 1131st Engineer Combat Group; 823rd Quartermaster Fumigation snd Bath Company; 887th, 888th, 889th, 915th and 873rd Air Engineer squadrons; 712th Air Materiel Squadron; 64th Airdrome Squadron; 87th, 107th and 310th Army postal units; headquarters 495th Quartermaster Battalion; 658th Engineer Light Equipment Company.
    AT NEWPORT NEWS: (Aboard G. Wythe)--17 troops, undesignated units.

Source:

Unknown, "Dutch Ship Lands Pacific Veterans in New York," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Wednesday, 5 September, 1945, p. 4.