Moving on to Ulithi, Freestone loaded U.S. Marines and their equipment and sailed to Leyte for intensive training in preparation for the Okinawa landings.

She voyaged to New Guinea to bring more soldiers to Manila, then sailed for the U.S. west coast with homeward bound servicemen.

On 14 February 1946, she sailed from San Francisco for Norfolk, Virginia, where she was decommissioned 17 April 1946, and transferred to the War Shipping Administration 2 days later.

Freestone was sold for scrapping on 9 April 1973 to Union Mineral and Alloys Corporation, New York (USA), for $111,560.00.

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