USS Hanover, a 7,845-ton Bayfield-class attack transport built to the Maritime Commission C3-S-A2 design, was built at Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was commissioned in March 1945. After a brief period of shakedown training, she embarked Marines and Seabees at Gulfport, Mississippi, and delivered them to Pearl Harbor in late May. Hanover left Pearl Harbor in July for Eniwetok, expecting to participate in the final assault on Japan, and moved on to Ulithi and Okinawa, where she arrived in August.

After the Japanese surrender, Hanover embarked Army troops for the occupation of Korea and delivered them to their destintion in mid-September. In late September she transported troops from Okinawa to Taku, China. She then carried out "Magic Carpet" voyages returning veterans to the United States, the last of which ended at San Francisco in February 1946. Hanover arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, in March, and in May she was decommissioned, stricken from the Navy List, and returned to the Maritime Commission. She was sold into mercantile service in 1947 and was scrapped in 1972.