First U.S. troops return from China-Burma-India campaigns. Cheering U.S.

First U.S. troops return from China-Burma-India campaigns. Cheering U.S. veterans of the China-Burma-India campaigns arrive in New York Sept. 27, 1945, aboard the U.S. Army transport General A.W. Greely. The 2,775 men and women aboard comprised the first large group to return to the U.S. from those theaters since the end of the war. Included were service engineers who built the Ledo Road, and members of the 10th and 14th U.S. Army Air Forces and the First and Second Air Commando Squadrons.