USS Gallatin, one of 117 attack transports of the 6,873-ton Haskell-class, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in November 1944. After shakedown training at San Pedro, California, Gallatin departed the West Coast in January 1945 with over 1,000 troops and cargo. Although she missed the assault on Okinawa, she carried passengers and military cargo throughout the Pacific in the months before the Japanese surrender. She returned to San Francisco in early August with nearly 1,500 veterans from the Philippines.

Following the Japanese surrender, Gallatin departed San Francisco in August with garrison troops for the Philippines. She then transported Army troops from the Philippines to Japan for occupation duty. Two "Magic Carpet" voyages followed, returning troops from the Philippines and Hawaii to San Diego in November 1945 and January 1946. She then sailed for Newport News on the East Coast, where she was decommissioned. Returned to the Maritime Commission in April 1946 and stricken from the Navy List in May, she was in the reserve fleet until sold for scrapping in September 1983.