First Class Quarters
(Private First Class, that is) with berths stacked four-high.

Hospital Ward
was a little less cramped but not necessarily comfortable.   At least 60 wounded 508ers came home on this ship during seven separate trans-Atlantic runs between September 1944 and January 1946.

Going Home!
January 1, 1946
The HMS "Queen Mary"
The 82 Airborne Division presents to Miss June Eyre
   This remembrance of the glorious association of our two peoples in War and Peace.
   In Sicily and Italy in 1943 The Winged Horsemen of Great Britain and the All American Troopers of the 82 set the stage for the invasion of Europe and the formation of the First Allied Airborne Army.  Along with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st the western ramparts were breached in Normandy and the fate of Germany was sealed by the sacrifices of our gallant men at Arnhem, Eindhoven and Nijmegen.
    Yet again Allied Airborne made history across the vaunted Rheine where the last remnants of  Hunnish might were pounded to pulp by the hooves of Pegasus and ripped into tatters by the Eagles Talons of the 17th Airborne Division.
   Together, U.S. and English glider troopers and parachutists spearhead every decisive operation in the European Theatre.  And quite fittingly, the veteran "Queen Mary" has proved a gracious hostess to the "All Americans" on their homeward voyage.  The memory will ever be a fond recollection of the officers and men of the U.S. 82 Airborne Division through the new years of peace ahead.
    Signed this 1st day of January 1946 by (numerous signatures were applied)