Leedstown, APA-56, was a Windsor-class attack transport, and she is not the earlier Leedstown (AP-73), which German bombers sank off Algiers in November 1942. Bethlehem Steel laid her down at Sparrows Point, Maryland, on 26 August 1942 as the merchant ship Exchequer, a C2 hull, Maritime Commission hull 590. She was classified AP-101 and named Wood, reclassified APA-56 on 1 February 1943, launched on 13 February 1943, and renamed Leedstown on 17 March. She was commissioned on 16 July 1943, Commander Harold Bye in command.
She trained with Army units in Chesapeake Bay, left Norfolk on 11 December 1943, and reached Honolulu on 31 December. She sailed on 22 January 1944 and brought troops to Kwajalein on 31 January. She left on 5 February and spent the next three months carrying supplies and reinforcements to the Solomons and Marshalls.
She landed her troops at Guam on 21 July 1944, cared for 270 battle casualties, and carried many of the wounded to Guadalcanal. At Peleliu from 15 to 20 September 1944 she repaired landing craft and cared for 326 casualties. She took part in the Leyte landings from 13 October, brought reinforcements on 14 November, and was at Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945 and Iwo Jima on 22 February. She made two Magic Carpet trips and occupation voyages to the Far East.
She was decommissioned at Seattle on 7 March 1946 and delivered to the Maritime Commission. She was sold in 1947, became the merchant ships Minute Man and then Exilona, and carried the first shipment in the 1964 sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. She was scrapped in 1970. She earned six battle stars.