USS Presidio, a 4,247-ton Gilliam-class attack transport built at Wilmington, California, was commissioned in April 1945. After shakedown, she sailed for Hawaii in June and subsequently transported men and equipment to Eniwetok and Kwajalein. Departing Eniwetok in July, Presidio rendezvoused with units of the 3d Fleet, transferred cargo and personnel to them while underway, then voyaged to Ulithi and Leyte and back to Eniwetok.
Two days after the Japanese surrender, Presidio carried out a second underway replenishment of combatant ships near Eniwetok, followed by a trip to Japan. Arriving in Tokyo Bay in mid-September, she commenced seven months of "Magic Carpet" duty, carrying returning veterans back to the United States on her eastward voyages and occupation personnel to Okinawa and Japan on her westward voyages. Designated in early 1946 for use in the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Presidio was not so employed and instead was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor in June 1946. She was towed back to the West Coast in June 1947, stricken from the Navy List in August 1947, and placed in the Maritime Commission's reserve fleet in September. Presidio was sold for scrapping in June 1965.
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