Ulithi and arrived San Francisco 10 August. Between 7 and 27 September, Latimer transported 1,164 occupation troops from Pearl Harbor via Saipan to Honshū, Japan. She returned to Saipan 1 to 6 October; embarked 1,523 passengers; and departed 8 October on “Operation Magic Carpet” passage to the U.S. West Coast, arriving Seattle 19 October. During the next 4 months she made two more “Magic Carpet” voyages to the western Pacific from Seattle and San Francisco, carrying military passengers from Saipan and the Philippines to the U.S. west coast. Arriving San Francisco 19 February 1946 after a voyage from Subic Bay, Luzon, Latimer departed 11 March for the U.S. East Coast. Steaming via the Panama Canal, she arrived Norfolk, Virginia, 26 March and for the next 5 months operated at Norfolk and Yorktown, Virginia. She entered Norfolk Navy Yard 27 August, decommissioned there 26 February 1947, and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Cold War Latimer recommissioned 23 September 1950 at Portsmouth, Virginia. Assigned to Transport Squadron 2, she operated out of Norfolk from the Virginia and North Carolina coast to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, transporting U.S. Marines and participating in amphibious landing exercises. Departing Norfolk 31 August 1951, she embarked 2d Division Marines at Morehead City, North Carolina, before sailing 2 September for the Mediterranean. She arrived Oran, Algeria, 14 September and began a 4-month deployment with the U.S. 6th Fleet. During amphibious exercises she steamed throughout the Mediterranean and touched the coasts of France, Italy, and Greece and the Islands of Crete, Sardinia, and Sicily. Departing Naples, Italy, 29 January 1952, she returned to the United States and reached Norfolk 14 February. For more than 2 years Latimer cruised in the Caribbean and along the eastern coast of North America from Florida to Greenland conducting Midshipman and U.S. Naval Reserve training cruises or engaging in amphibious landing training. Between 6 September 1954 and 30 January 1955 she again deployed to the Mediterranean, and after another year of operations along the eastern seaboard, she steamed from Brooklyn, New York, to Galveston, Texas, 2 to 9 February 1956. Final decommissioning Towed to Orange, Texas, 24 to 25 February, Latimer decommissioned 15 May and entered the Texas group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In February 1960 she transferred to the Maritime Administration and was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. She was berthed at Mobile, Alabama and was struck from the