USS Flint, a 6,000-ton Oakland class light cruiser built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned at the end of August 1944. After shaking down along the West Coast, she arrived in the western Pacific war zone in late December and during January 1945 served with the fast carriers as they struck enemy targets in support of the invasion of Luzon. She continued in the carrier escort role in February and March, during the Iwo Jima landings and raids against the Japanese Home Islands. Over the following three months, as the prolonged fight for Okinawa was brought to a successful conclusion, Flint screened fleet units and conducted shore bombardment operations. In July and August 1945, she participated in the Third Fleet's strikes against targets in Japan, and briefly remained in the area to support initial occupation efforts following the conclusion of hostilities.

Flint headed eastbound across the Pacific in October 1945, helping to bring home war veterans as part of Operation "Magic Carpet". She made a similar round-trip voyage to and from the central Pacific later in the year. Inactive at Bremerton, Washington, after January 1946, the cruiser was decommissioned there in May 1947. She was was reclassified CLAA-97 in March 1949 and remained in the Pacific Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in September 1965. USS Flint was sold for scrapping in October 1966.