USS General J . C . Breckinridge ( AP - 176 ) USS " General J . C . Breckinridge " ( AP - 176 ) was a troopship that served with the United States Navy in World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War . In October 1949 she was redesignated T - AP - 176 but retained her Navy crew . USS " General J . C . Breckinridge " , a " General John Pope " class troop transport , was built under Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company at Kearny , New Jersey . World War II . She was commissioned with a United States Coast Guard crew in June 1945 and was " en route " to Marseille on her first operational voyage when the surrender of Japan ended World War II . Peacetime service . The transport made four more voyages to France to bring troops home , then was transferred to the Pacific , arriving at San Francisco in January 1946 . A Navy crew replaced her Coast Guard crew there in February , probably after she was selected as one of six ships of her class to be retained in the postwar commissioned fleet . Following five trans - Pacific voyages , between October 1946 and January 1947 " General J . C . Breckinridge " was then converted at Philadelphia for peacetime employment , with special facilities for military dependents . She retained her armament but lost some of her lifeboats . " Breckinridge " then returned to the Pacific where she maintained a busy schedule of voyages between the west coast and numerous points in the Western Pacific . In October 1949 all the ships in the Naval Transportation Service were reassigned to the newly created Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) . As a ship operationally subordinate to MSTS she was redesignated T - AP - 176 , but because she was a commissioned vessel with a Navy , not civilian , crew , " General J . C . Breckinridge " retained the designation " USS " instead of becoming " USNS . " Korean War . In July 1950 , immediately after the outbreak of the Korean War , " General J . C . Breckinridge " was reconverted to a troop transport at San Francisco and in August carried troops from Seattle to Yokosuka , Japan . She was diverted from her return voyage to support the assault on Inchon , where she arrived with fresh troops the day after the landing . In November 1950 she assisted in the evacuation of Wonsan , and in December she helped evacuate Hungnam . " General J . C . Breckinridge " made two more troop voyages in the was in Korea and then returned to regular MSTS transport duty , carrying both military and civilian passengers throughout the Pacific area . In 1955 she was again modified , losing her armament and receiving additional lifeboats . She remained an active part of the MSTS nucleus fleet as one of its few commissioned ships until December 1965 , when she was inactivated and turned over to the Maritime Administration for layup in its reserve fleet . Vietnam War . Some sources record the ship as having played a small role in the Vietnam War in 1965 and receiving a service star for her service there . It landed troops off the coast of Vung Tau in Vietnam in May 1965 . In June 1965 it landed troops at Cam Ranh Bay , Nha Trang and Qui Nhon . The Breckenridge also made at least one other voyage to South Vietnam in 1965 , dropping off troops at Cam Ranh Bay and Qui Nhon ( and perhaps other ports ) on or about 20 September . Point of departure was Oakland , Calif . , on or about 22 August . Decommission . " General J . C . Breckinridge " was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and permanently transferred to the Maritime Administration in December 1966 . The Maritime Administration sold her in August 1987 to a Japanese firm for scrapping . Awards . " General J . C . Breckinridge " received four service star s for Korean War service and one for Vietnam War service .