Less than a week later on 14 January, Braxton collided with the merchant tanker SS Mission Capistrano during a heavy fog and suffered damage to two LCVP's, three life rafts, and her hull.

Following repairs, the attack transport departed Long Beach on 22 January, proceeded to San Diego, California, and reported the next day for duty with the Amphibious Training Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet.

There, she disembarked her remaining out-bound passengers before embarking U.S. Marine Corps officers and enlisted men for the return voyage on 1 May.

Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 5 June, the attack transport disembarked passengers from the U.S. West Coast and embarked 5 army officers and 296 enlisted men for the voyage westward, returning to sea on the 8th bound for the Marshalls.

Such conditions continued into August, but the arrival of a typhoon forced the ship to sea on the 1st for two days to ride out the "blow."

Braxton and her consorts later joined task force TF 31—commanded by Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger in USS Iowa (BB-61)—on the 19th and she dropped anchor in Sagami Wan, Honshū on the 27th.

Having put her "third load of occupation troops on Japan", Braxton sailed for San Pedro, Los Angeles, on 3 November as part of the "Operation Magic Carpet" fleet.

On the 9th, LCI-1O17 came alongside and transferred 8 German officers, 154 enlisted men, and 2 prisoners—the remaining crewmen of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen (IX-300), a war prize that had been brought to the United States from the Baltic—to Braxton.

She then embarked 1,492 U.S. Army enlisted men and, with the 164 former Prinz Eugen crewmen still on board, sailed for Germany on 3 May 1946, reaching Bremerhaven on the morning of the 10th.

Ten days later, Braxton got underway for the United States with naval and military passengers and reached Staten Island on 30 May.

She remained there, inactive, until sold on 9 April 1973 to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation, of New York City, to be scrapped.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.