USS Fond du Lac, one of 117 Haskell class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Vancouver, Washington, and was commissioned in November 1944. She sailed from San Francisco in January 1945 with reinforcement troops and cargo for Leyte Gulf, which she delivered in February. After assault loadout and training, Fond du Lac departed Leyte Gulf in March and participated in the assault on Okinawa on 1 April. She then carried casualties to Guam and continued east to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco. She delivered additional troops from the West Coast to the Philippines in June and then transferred men from New Guinea to the Philippines before heading back to San Francisco in July.

After the Japanese surrender, Fond du Lac delivered Marine occupation troops to Sasebo in September 1945 and then brought an additional contingent of occupation troops from the Philippines to Japan. She then carried out a "Magic Carpet" voyage, returning servicemen from Guam to the West Coast. In December she made another transport voyage to the Far East, and in January 1946 she made her last trip to Pearl Harbor. In February Fond du Lac sailed from San Francisco to Norfolk, where she was decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission in April for retention in its reserve fleet. She was sold in May 1974 for scrapping.