USS Oglethorpe ( AKA - 100 ) USS " Oglethorpe " ( AKA - 100 ) was an named after a county in Georgia , which in turn was named in honor of James Oglethorpe , the founder of the state . She served as a commissioned ship for approximately 23 years . " Oglethorpe " ( AKA - 100 ) was laid down on 26 December 1944 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , Kearny , New Jersey , under contract for the Maritime Commission . Transferred to the Navy while still on the ways , she was launched on 15 April 1945 , sponsored by Mrs . Ellsworth Buck , wife of the New York Congressman ; and commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard , New York , on 6 June 1945 , Captain James Campbell , USNR , in command . Service history . 1945 – 1950 . Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay , she served as a training vessel at Little Creek , Virginia , and Newport , Rhode Island . On 1 August 1945 , the ship sailed for Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal . Receiving news of Japan ' s surrender en route , the ship continued on to the $ 3 . After carrying general cargo between Pearl Harbor , Kwajalein , Guadalcanal , and Nouméa , in December 1945 she returned to the United States and was assigned to the Naval Transportation Service and , later , Military Sea Transportation Service . Remaining a commissioned ship , she carried cargo in the Western Pacific until 25 June 1950 . 1950 – 1959 . When the Communists invaded the Republic of Korea , she joined amphibious forces in Yokosuka , Japan on 9 July . Quickly converted in Japan for wartime operation , " Oglethorpe " carried equipment for the 1st Cavalry Division to Po Hung Dong , Korea , where the troops landed on 18 July . Returning to San Diego in August , she embarked men and equipment of the 1st Marine Division . Arriving off Inchon , Korea on 15 September , for six days she supported the amphibious assault which briefly reversed the course of the war , sending Communist troops scurrying back to North Korea . After a round trip to Japan , she reloaded equipment of the 1st Marine Division for the assault at Wonsan . Arriving off Wonsan on 25 October she supported the operation until the 30th and then returned to the West Coast . Transferred to the Atlantic Fleet in January 1951 , " Oglethorpe " participated in amphibious training along the East Coast and in the Caribbean and Mediterranean . In October 1955 , she made two trips to aid flood - stricken Tampico , Mexico . Crewmen in six LCMs distributed food , clothing , and medicine to flood victims far up the swollen and treacherous Panuco River . Resuming her pattern of operations alternating East Coast training and Mediterranean deployments , the ship was part of the fleet that brought the Marines to Lebanon in July 1958 . 1960 – 1968 . In October 1962 , " Oglethorpe " stood ready off Cuba when President Kennedy demanded the removal of Soviet missiles . The prompt and firm employment of U . S . Naval power forced the rapid withdrawal of the offensive missiles and maintained peace in the Western Hemisphere . Once again in the Mediterranean , the ship joined the ready forces as hostilities heightened between Greek and Turkish factions on Cyprus in early 1964 . Returning from the Mediterranean in August 1966 , the ship entered Boston Naval Shipyard in early January 1967 . Following overhaul she continued her pattern of East Coast training and Mediterranean deployments until struck from the Navy List on 1 November 1968 . Awards . " Oglethorpe " received two battle star s for Korean service .