USS Cortland (APA-75) was a Gilliam-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.

Commissioned late in the war, she was initially assigned to transport duties and consequently did not participate in combat operations.

While Cortland was being outfitted at San Pedro on 5 January 1945, her watch apprehended beneath the pier a prowler who upon investigation proved to be a German spy.

[1] Cortland completed her outfit and shakedown uneventfully and sailed to Seattle to embark Army troops, clearing 1 March for training operations in the Hawaiian Islands.

Returning to San Francisco 13 September, she remained there until 5 November when she sailed for New York and Norfolk, where she arrived 5 December.