USS LST-848, a 2366-ton LST-511 class tank landing ship built at Ambridge, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in January 1945. She went to the Pacific soon thereafter and performed logistics duties between the Marianas and Okinawa between June and August, when Japan agreed to surrender. LST-848 supported the occupation of Japan until late in 1945, then returned to the United States, arriving at San Francisco, California, in February 1946. She was decommissioned in August 1946 and remained in the Pacific Reserve Fleet for the next thirteen years. In July 1955, while in "mothballs", the ship was renamed Jerome County.

Recommissioned in December 1959, during the first half of the 1960s Jerome County supported guided missile and nuclear weapons tests in the mid-Pacific and took part in amphibious training exercises along the U.S. West Coast. Between August and December 1965 she deployed to the Western Pacific to take part in Vietnam War operations. Two more combat tours were made in March-October 1966 and from December 1967 to June 1968, during which she provided transportation services in northern South Vietnam and operated in the Mekong River area.

In mid-1969 a planned fourth Southeast Asian deployment was cancelled, and Jerome County was instead prepared for transfer abroad. She became the Republic of Vietnam Navy ship Nha Trang in April 1970. Five years later, when South Vietnam was conquered by the North Vietnamese army, she escaped to the Philippines and subsequently became the Philippine Navy's Agusan Del Sur. The ship was disposed of in about 1992.