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USNS Marine Phoenix Returns Home, Troop Homecoming

USNS Marine Phoenix Returns Home, Troop Homecoming
Clip: 503791_1_1
Year Shot: 1953 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 1486
Original Film: HFR-SFL-35-045
HD: N/A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Timecode: 01:47:22 - 01:48:42

Master 1486 - Tape 1 Excellent sideview TLS U.S. Army soldiers returning home from overseas deployment in Korea, walking gangplank with luggage and Army-issued duffle bags, alighting troop ship; both black and white soldiers (integrated armed services). Great LS crowd (friends, family, relatives, wives, girlfriends, etc) gathered on dock, watching for arriving ship, some shielding sun from eyes. LS USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) sailing into harbor, tugboat in accompaniment; steel trestle bridge in BG. Nice DOF TLS U.S. Marine Corps band marching along dock with instruments (non-performance), U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines standing on decks of docked Marine Phoenix in BG. Excellent LS white male U.S. Army soldiers walking along dock, away from transport ship, surrounded by family, wives, even a newborn baby (homecoming). Great LS U.S.M.C. marines, U.S. Navy sailors, U.S. Army soldiers standing & crowding decks as Marine Phoenix transport ship pulls into docks, lifeboats suspended overhead. LS Marine Phoenix pulling into port, U.S.N. sailors standing on dock. LS crowd of well-wishers, family members standing on dock, waving.