on 1 July, to be manned by a Japanese civilian crew. On 28 August, she recommissioned at Yokosuka, Japan. After training out of Kobe, Japan, LST-975 joined the Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, and arrived off Inchon, Korea, on 15 September, for supply duty through the landings on 15 to 17 September, and into the middle of October. That first day she was repeatedly harassed by sniper fire as she beached on "Red Beach"; a mortar shell wounded one man. While she unloaded during the next few days, Marine casualties were brought on board for care by Surgical Team 3. Completing unloading by 17 September, she spent the next month on ship-to-shore supply operations. On 15 October, the tank landing ship departed Inchon, for Wonsan, arriving 25 October, five days after the original landings. The difficulties of land transportation on the peninsula repeatedly emphasized the key importance of seaborne supply. LST-975s supply runs lasted into the middle of 1951. She departed Yokosuka, Japan, on 1 May, for the west coast, arriving at San Diego, 26 May, and operated along the California coast for the next eight months before returning to the Far East. LST-975 arrived off Yokosuka, on 11 March 1952. She again supported the deterrent efforts of the United Nations Forces in Korea from 4 April, during protracted armistice negotiations, until departing on 20 October, for the west coast. Inter-war On 19 June 1953, LST-975 sailed via Seattle and Point Barrow, to resupply Distant Early Warning Line (DEWS) radar stations along the Arctic Circle. On 25 August, she departed Seward, Alaska, to resume operations out of San Diego, until 19 October, when she got underway for another cruise to the Far East. Following arrival at Yokosuka, on 13 November, the tank landing ship spent nearly five months in amphibious warfare training. From 23 to 26 March 1954, she participated in a simulated assault landing on Iwo Jima – nearly a decade after the World War II operation on 19 February 1945. Returning to the west coast, the LST arrived at San Diego, on 20 May, for two years of coastal duty. Renamed Marion County on 1 July 1955, she departed San Diego, on 9 January 1956, for training exercises off Hawaii and the Philippines. After a stay in the Long Beach, California, area from 14 April to 5 May, Marion County sailed for Portland, Oregon, arriving on 9 May. The