Welcome Home - Friends And Relatives Meet 2,000 Returning Troops On Louisiana (1914-1919)

Welcome home - friends and relatives meet 2,000 returning troops on USS Louisiana. Wonderful heart warming footage American troops return to USA on the . Louisiana and are greeted in New York by friends; relatives; cheering crowds. Opens with shot panning along side of the large ship; with soldiers everywhere on deck. DS crowd going wild; mostly civilians; with a few uniforms among them; someone beating on a bass drum; people waving flags and also pennants with skull & crossbones and ’59’ on them. People are underneath some framework held up by poles; harbour in BG. Shot of towers of the ship; pan down to smoke stacks; guns; etc. and decks teeming with troops. Cool shot panning rt. on welcome party; mostly women in FG; signs held up ’Oh You 59th Atta Boy!’; ’Hello Elie!’; ’Welcome Home.’; ’HARRY MURPHY’. Then DS crowd waving flags in a frenzy. Excitement; patriotism;celebration; joy FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT