The USS Marvin H. McIntyre (APA-129) was a Haskell-class attack transport built to the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design, launched on 21 September 1944 by the California Shipbuilding Corporation in Wilmington, Los Angeles. Originally named Arlington for Arlington County, Virginia, she was renamed in honor of Marvin H. McIntyre, Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, becoming the only Haskell-class ship not named after a U.S. county. The vessel was acquired by the U.S. Navy on loan charter on 27 November 1944 and commissioned on 28 November 1944. Constructed for rapid wartime deployment, the ship measured in accordance with her design specifications, capable of carrying troops, cargo, and landing craft for amphibious assaults. After shakedown, she departed Los Angeles on 18 January 1945, and by 4 February, she arrived at Guadalcanal’s Lunga Point, where she began intensive amphibious training for the upcoming Okinawa invasion. On 1 April 1945, she participated in the initial attack at Okinawa, discharging passengers and cargo, and remained off the island until 5 April, after which she evacuated wounded Marines to Saipan, arriving there on 9 April. Following her Okinawa operations, McIntyre returned to Pearl Harbor, then proceeded to San Francisco, where she embarked Army Air Corps personnel and equipment for the Philippines, arriving in Manila Bay on 14 June 1945. She served in the western Pacific, including stops at Leyte and Milne Bay, and supported troop movements among Pacific islands until the end of hostilities. From August 1945, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, repatriating American servicemen from Nagasaki, arriving in Seattle on 21 November. Decommissioned on 6 June 1946 at Hampton Roads, Virginia, she was subsequently placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. She was eventually sold for scrapping in 1973. Throughout her service, the USS Marvin H. McIntyre earned one battle star for her World War II operations, notably her participation in the Okinawa campaign, marking her as a significant vessel in the logistical and amphibious efforts of the Pacific Theater. Her remains today include only her brass builder’s plate, a testament to her wartime service.

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