USS Lowndes, one of 117 Haskell-class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in September 1944. After shakedown training on the West Coast, in October she moved to Hawaii to prepare for upcoming amphibious operations. Lowndes was off Iwo Jima on D-day in February 1945 and remained offshore for eight days supporting the landings. Moving to Saipan to reload, at the begining of April the transport arrived off Okinawa as U.S. forces began their invasion. She waited twelve days in the retirement area, then landed her troops and cargo. Following a series of voyages in the central and southwest Pacific Lowndes left Guam in mid-July 1945 for San Francisco.
After the Japanese surrender, Lowndes carried troops and cargo to the Philippines and Japan for occupation duty. In October 1945 she commenced a voyage under Operation "Magic Carpet," returning veterans from Saipan to the West Coast. In February 1946 she moved to the East Coast. Decommissioned at Norfolk and returned to the Maritime Commission in April, USS Lowndes was stricken from the Navy List in May and placed in the Maritime Commission's reserve fleet. She was sold for scrapping in 1983.
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