Departing Galveston, Texas, 15 March, Latona loaded dry and refrigerated cargo at Mobile, Alabama, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived Pearl Harbor 17 April.

Over the next month she transported provisions to bases in the Marianas and on Iwo Jima before returning to Pearl Harbor 18 November with 64 military passengers embarked.

After making a supply run to Wake Island and the Marshalls between 1 December and 12 January 1946, she sailed to the U.S. West Coast, where she arrived San Pedro, California, 2 February.

During a period of almost 3 years, she made nine deployments to bases scattered throughout the western and central Pacific, including five supply runs to the Marshalls and Marianas, and four to the Far East.

Her crew was eligible for the following medals: This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.