USS General W . A . Mann ( AP - 112 ) USS " General W . A . Mann " ( AP - 112 ) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War . " General W . A . Mann " , a P2 - type troopship , was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny , New Jersey , in 1942 – 43 and commissioned on the date of acquisition , 13 October 1943 , Comdr . Paul S . Maguire , USNR , in command . World War II . Operating out of Norfolk , Virginia , " General W . A . Mann " delivered troops and supplies to the North Africa n theater , making four successive round - trip voyages to Casablanca and one to Oran before mid - May 1944 . She stood out 5 June 1944 for Oran again and after touching North Africa sailed thence to Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , to load troops bound for Naples , Italy . " General W . A . Mann " subsequently visited Oran and Liverpool before returning to New York 14 August . On 2 September the transport got underway for Rio de Janeiro and Naples , returning to Norfolk on 21 October . Eleven days later she sailed for Bombay , India , via Gibraltar , Algiers and the Suez Canal and returned to the west coast of the United States via Brisbane , Australia , and New Guinea , thence to San Pedro , California , arriving 13 January 1945 . She made another passage to India and visited Melbourne and Noumea on the return voyage , arriving Los Angeles 15 April and thereafter steaming north to San Francisco . The ship journeyed from San Francisco to the Philippines , touching Manila and Leyte , and after reaching Pearl Harbor in early June sailed thence to Norfolk via the Panama Canal . " General W . A . Mann " departed Norfolk 4 July 1945 for Marseilles , France , to redeploy troops to the Pacific . Re - entering the vast Pacific , she called at Okinawa via Eniwetok and Ulithi in September and returned to Seattle , Washington 28 October . From 2 November 1945 to 5 January 1946 she made a round trip voyage from Seattle to Nagasaki and Wakayama , Japan , setting the pattern of a series of " Magic Carpet " passages and " Diaper Runs " in which servicemen and their families were carried to and from the Far East . She stood duty as a " Guam Ferry " and continued to transport men and material until transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service in October 1949 . Korean War . In the Korean War " General W . A . Mann " carried precious Republic of Korea government cargo , including gold and silver bullion valued at $ 1 . 5 million as well as the private papers of President of South Korea Syngman Rhee , from Pusan to San Francisco , 1 to 15 August 1950 . 1950s - 1960s . On 16 June 1951 , she sailed on a round - the - world voyage which took her from San Francisco via the Panama Canal to New Orleans and thence via Dover , England , to Bremerhaven , Germany . From this latter port , she returned to New York and thence steamed back to Bremerhaven via Dover as before , getting underway for Morocco , Suez , Colombo , Indochina , and finally to San Francisco 22 September 1951 via Guam and Hawaii . From 1952 to 1962 " General W . A . Mann " made frequent trans - Pacific runs to Japan , Korea , Okinawa , Guam , the Philippines , and Taiwan out of west coast ports , and occasional passages to Alaska . Cuban missile crisis . In October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis , " General W . A . Mann " sailed from San Diego , California for the Caribbean with 55 , 000 pounds of provisions in case these supplies should be needed . When relative calm came to the Caribbean , " General W . A . Mann " returned to the Pacific and continued her important transportation runs from the West Coast to the Far East . Decommission . " General W . A . Mann " was struck 1 December 1966 , transferred to the Maritime Administration on 20 December 1966 , and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Hudson River , New York . She was transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Fort Eustis on the James River in Virginia on 21 July 1969 . On 10 April 1987 she was sold for scrap for $ 1 , 050 , 050 , and scrapped in Taiwan in November of that year . Awards . " General W . A . Mann " earned two service star s for Korean War service and one for Vietnam War service .