USS San Bernardino County ( LST - 1110 ) USS " San Bernardino County " ( LST – 1110 ) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II . Named for San Bernardino County , California , she was the only U . S . Naval vessel to bear the name . LST - 1110 was laid down on 28 December 1944 by the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company of Evansville , Indiana ; launched on 9 February 1945 , sponsored by Mrs . Sidney Kolb ; placed in reduced commission for transit to New Orleans on 1 March 1945 ; and commissioned in full on 7 March 1945 with Lieutenant Alton S . Lee , USNR , in command . Service history . World War II , 1945 . Following shakedown off Florida , " LST - 1110 " loaded creosote , piles , asphalt , and an LCT and departed New Orleans for Pearl Harbor on 15 April . From Oahu , she carried her cargo on to the Marianas ; offloaded the piles and asphalt at Guam ; took on gasoline drums at Saipan ; and , on 20 June , sailed for Okinawa . She offloaded her cargo onto the Hagushi beaches and embarked elements of the 6th Marines between 26 June and 10 July ; then sailed back to Guam , where she discharged her passengers . Availability at Saipan followed ; and , at the end of the month , she moved on to the Solomons to load cargo for the Philippines . Post - war activities , 1945 . The war ended on 15 August ; and , four days later , " LST - 1110 " departed Guadalcanal . On the 30th , she anchored off Calicoan Island and completed offloading by 11 September . The LST then shifted to San Pedro Bay , whence she proceeded to Lingayen Gulf to join Amphibious Group 8 to participate in the occupation of eastern Honshū . Departing Luzon on 26 September , " LST - 1110 " disembarked elements of the 8th Field Artillery , 25th Division , I Army Corps , at Nagoya on 25 and 26 October ; then got underway to return to Lingayen Gulf . In November , she transported Quartermaster Corps personnel to Sasebo , then sailed east . On the 27th , she arrived at Iwo Jima ; embarked 20th Air Force personnel ; and continued on to Saipan where she discharged her passengers on 5 December . " LST - 1110 " remained at Saipan through December ; and , on 8 January 1946 , she sailed for Pearl Harbor and the California coast . 1946 – 1953 . Arriving at San Pedro on 11 February 1946 , she underwent overhaul at Long Beach ; and , in June , proceeded to San Diego where she reported to ComPhibPac for duty . For the next two years , she provided amphibious training and logistic support services along the West Coast . Then , in the summer of 1948 , she commenced the first of many Arctic logistic support missions . She departed Port Hueneme on 25 June ; proceeded to San Francisco , whence she continued north , with , to Seattle and Alaskan points . Later joined by the ice breaker , , she reached Nome on the 29th ; and , on the 31st , moved on to other northern stations : Point Lay , Barter Island , and Point Barrow . In mid - August , she began to move south again and arrived at Long Beach on the 28th . On 16 September , she returned to San Diego and resumed amphibious training and logistics operations along the California coast . For the next five years , she maintained a similar schedule , operating in the arctic during the summer and off California for the remainder of each year . 1953 – 1957 . In the fall of 1953 , " LST - 1110 " was dispatched to Hawaii for winter training exercises . In February 1953 , she returned to San Diego ; and , in September , she sailed west again for her first peacetime deployment to the Far East . Departing San Diego on the 20th , she arrived at Yokosuka , Japan on 22 October and began six months of cargo operations and training exercises in Japanese and Korean waters . On 12 April 1955 she departed Inchon for home and arrived at San Diego on the 28th . At the end of June , " LST - 1110 " resumed Arctic resupply operations ; and , on 1 July , while deployed , she was named USS " San Bernardino County " . She returned to Southern California in October and remained there until February 1956 , when she was transferred to Pearl Harbor . She arrived at her new home port on 2 March , conducted operations from there through May ; but , in June , she again sailed north . Her reassignment to Pearl Harbor did not change her summer deployments ; and , in that year and in 1957 , she carried supplies to Arctic bases . On 13 September 1957 , she completed her last Alaskan mission . Decommissioning and sale . On 31 December 1957 , she was placed in commission , in reserve ; and , on 15 August 1958 she was decommissioned for transfer to the Republic of China . The following day , the transfer was completed , and the LST was commissioned as " Chung Chiang " ( LST - 225 ) . USS " San Bernardino County " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 6 February 1959 . " Chung Chiang " was discarded by the Republic of China in 1993 , her final fate unknown . Awards . " LST - 1110 " received one battle star for World War II service .