President of South Korea Syngman Rhee, from Pusan to San Francisco, 1 to 15 August 1950. 1950s-1960s On 16 June 1951, she sailed on a round-the-world voyage which took her from San Francisco via the Panama Canal to New Orleans and thence via Dover, England, to Bremerhaven, Germany. From this latter port, she returned to New York and thence steamed back to Bremerhaven via Dover as before, getting underway for Morocco, Suez, Colombo, Indochina, and finally to San Francisco 22 September 1951 via Guam and Hawaii. From 1952 to 1962 General W. A. Mann made frequent trans-Pacific runs to Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Guam, the Philippines, and Taiwan out of west coast ports, and occasional passages to Alaska. Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam In October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, General W. A. Mann sailed from San Diego, California for the Caribbean with 55,000 pounds of provisions in case these supplies should be needed. When relative calm came to the Caribbean, General W. A. Mann returned to the Pacific and continued her important transportation runs from the West Coast to the Far East. Transport included US Marines in August-December 1964 to Okinawa and under Capt. Ben W. Blee with trips to Da Nang, South Vietnam, August - December 1965. Decommission General W. A. Mann was struck 1 December 1966, transferred to the Maritime Administration on 20 December 1966, and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Hudson River, New York. She was transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Fort Eustis on the James River in Virginia on 21 July 1969. On 10 April 1987 she was sold for scrap for $1,050,050, and scrapped in Taiwan in November of that year. Awards European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Navy Occupation Medal with "ASIA" clasp China Service Medal National Defense Service Medal with star Korean Service Medal with two campaign stars Vietnam Service Medal with one campaign star United Nations Korea Medal Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal References General W. A. Mann AP-112 - DANFS Online. USS General W. A. Mann (AP-112), Navsource Online. 1943 ships Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States W. A. Mann (AP-112) Korean War auxiliary ships of the United States Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey Vietnam War auxiliary ships of the United States World War II auxiliary ships of the United States Troop ships