With the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, "LST-825 "recommissioned on 3 November 1950 with Lieutenant Thomas R. Ashton in command. After training out of San Diego, "LST-825" entered Pearl Harbor on 8 April 1951 where she transported passengers and cargo among the Hawaiian Islands until returning stateside on 1 July. On 17 September she returned to Hawaii and operated there until her return on 16 December to San Diego. Departing San Diego on 26 April 1952, the LST arrived at Yokosuka on 11 June via Pearl Harbor and Midway Island. She made several cruises to the Korean coast to participate in tactical amphibious exercises and maneuvers of U.S. and Republic of Korean troops. "LST-825 "also carried prisoners-of-war from Korea to Japan. She returned to San Diego on 5 March 1953 for scheduled amphibious landing exercises and fleet tactics along the western seaboard. Her second Western Pacific cruise began on her departure from California on 20 January 1954. Spring and early summer were spent in operations along the Japanese and Korean coast as well as cargo duty between Eniwetok and Bikini Atoll.NOTE above statements not exact! The 825 left San Diego on the way to the far east in the fall of 1951, laying over I Hawaii and leaving Pearl Harbor Dec, 7, 1951 on its way to Japan via Midway Isle. Prisoners were transported to a prison camp in the southern part of Korea, not Japan. At least, that's a fact for the year 1952.