USS Kingsbury, one of 117 Haskell-class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in December 1944. After shakedown training, she departed the West Coast in February 1945, arrived off Iwo Jima in mid-March, and transported Marines who had fought there back to Pearl Harbor via Guam and Eniwetok. Moving to Seattle, Washington, Kingsbury embarked a new contingent of Marines and delivered them to Iwo Jima in July. She then took personnel back to Pearl Harbor.

After the Japanese surrender, Kingsbury transported occupation Marine troops from Pearl Harbor to Sasebo, Japan, in September 1945. After a round trip between Japan and the Philippines with additional occupation troops, she carried out two voyages under Operation "Magic Carpet," returning veterans from the Philippines to the West Coast in November 1945 and January 1946. She then moved to the East Coast, arriving at Norfolk in March. USS Kingsbury was decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission in April, stricken from the Navy List in May 1946, and placed in the Maritime Commission's James River, Virginia, reserve fleet. She was sold for scrapping in 1983.