USS Eastern Light (ID-3538) was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1127 cargo steamship that was built in Japan in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board (USSB).

The Osaka Iron Works Company in Innoshima, Hiroshima built Eastern Light as yard number 951.

She reached Norfolk, Virginia on 9 February 1919, and loaded cargo for the United States Food Administration.

She crossed the North Atlantic, called at Falmouth, Cornwall on 13 February, and reached Rotterdam on 5 March.

She called en route at Plymouth, England, and reached New York on 10 April, after a crossing of 16 days.

They were renamed Willkeno, Willboro, and Willzipo respectively, as the company was in joint liability with the Williams Steam Ship Corporation.

[7] In 1937 the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company acquired Willkeno, Willboro, and Willzipo and renamed them Isthmian, Coloradan, and Washingtonian respectively.

[13] In June,[14] July,[15] or August[1] 1944 (sources differ), Illinioan was scuttled off Omaha Beach to reinforce the Gooseberry 2 breakwater.