Homecoming Snafu

The first 4,000 homing servicemen to disembark at Halifax had complaints aplenty. They had been jampacked in the troop ship Louis Pasteur, had had only two meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions.

To greet the homecomers there were only a handful of brass hats, newsmen and stevedores. The Army banned the public from the pier. In the bustle of disembarkation the soldiers missed more meals: one large group went foodless for 15 hours. The Army refused to let Canadian Legion and Red Cross canteen trucks on the dock.

A few of the servicemen, overjoyed to be home, took the snags and snarls in their stride. Said one airman: "I don't mind. I put up with worse things in Germany."

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