Oconto (APA-187) served as an attack transport of the Haskell class. Kaiser at Vancouver launched her on 20 June 1944, and the Navy commissioned her on 2 September 1944.
On 2 January 1945 she sailed from Manus for the Lingayen Gulf landing. Across two days that began on 11 January she discharged troops and cargo in Lingayen Gulf.
She next took troops aboard at Biak and put them ashore on Mindoro. By 12 February she had returned to Leyte Gulf.
From 1 April to 4 April 1945 she lay off the Okinawa beach through repeated air raids. She shot down one kamikaze. She also helped splash a second.
She was off Okinawa again on 24 July 1945 and stayed ten days. Reinforcements went ashore while she dodged air attacks and rode out a typhoon.
Lingayen Gulf, Mindoro, and the two stays off Okinawa made her Pacific war. She came through all of it.