USS Freestone, 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 arrived at Pearl Harbor in January 1945 with passengers and cargo from the West Coast, and she then carried troops from Pearl to Saipan. Freestone steamed further west to load Marines and their equipment at Ulithi and proceeded to Leyte to train for the assault on Okinawa. Putting her troops ashore soon after the first assault waves landed, she then carried casualties to Guam and returned to San Francisco in May. She arrived at Manila in June with troops from the West Coast, brought more troops to the Philippines from New Guinea, and then transported servicemen back to the West Coast.

Between August and December 1945, Freestone made two trips to the Western Pacific to redeploy men and equipment in the Philippines and from various locations to Japan. The eastbound legs of both trip were "Magic Carpet" voyages, in which she returned to the West Coast servicemen eligible for discharge. In February 1946 Freestone 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 April 1973 for scrapping.