during world war ii, "lst-843" was assigned to the asiatic-pacific theater and participated in the assault and occupation of okinawa gunto from april through june 1945. following the war, the ship performed occupation duty in the far east and saw service in china until early december 1947. she was decommissioned on 18 december 1947, transferred to the philippines and renamed bpr "bulacan". on 22 january 1948 the tank landing ship was struck from the naval vessel register.