Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)
Video Collection
Title: Transportation Story
Segment 3: Featuring USNS
Barrett.
Production Date: 06/13/1952-06/14-1952
Length: 09:44
Shot List: US Army Special hostesses on deck
and in lounge. "Barrett" pulling out. A woman and some dependent
children wave. Hostesses read, chat. Group of women and children
chat in luxurious lounge; others climb ship's stairs toward
camera. Travel shots of the "Barrett" under way escorted by two
waterspouting fire boats. Views from another vessel as
dependents wave from the "Barrett". Seq: as soldiers chat by
bunks in troop compartment; others stow away barracks bags.
Airmen walk in corridor and down stairs with their bags. Sailors
and a soldier check in the hostesses and children going aboard.
Woman feeds bottle to a child in lounge; woman and child wave
from window. Empty bunks in troop compartment. Soldiers have
their hair cut by ship's barbers; others read while they wait
their turn. Group of hostesses chat, look out by rail. Sailor
operates "Pepsi-cola" dispenser in serving drinks to GIs at
ship's soda fountain. Shots of GIs at fountain. Captain Towne,
master of "Barrett" looks on as GIs carry barracks bags aboard
ship. Capt. Towne, Other shots of GIs at fountain. GIs walk
gangplank to ship. Capt. Towne. Shot of empty bunks in troop
compartment. Dependent women and children. Hostesses walking on
canopied gangplank; some children are assisted by sailors. Navy
Chaplain Albert J. Clement looks on. Hostesses wave from deck of
"Barrett". Two hostesses. Sailors and officers salute as Adm.
Voseller accompanied by a woman and other naval officers comes
aboard. Other shots as GIs carry their bags aboard. GIs on pier.
Civilians on pier wave. Hostesses wave from the "Barrett". View
of the "Barrett" at dock. Travel shots of the "Barrett" leaving
the harbor accompanied by fireboat. View of passengers lining
rail of the ship.