Originally laid down as LCT (7)–1675 on 11 July 1944 at the Charleston Navy Yard, she was launched on 3 August 1944, sponsored by Miss Emily V. Jackson; and commissioned on 25 September 1944 as USS LSM-175.

Following a Chesapeake Bay shakedown, LSM–175 departed the east coast, transited the Panama Canal, and continued on to San Diego, arriving 1 December.

She departed the Solomons on 12 March, staged at Ulithi, then steamed west, arriving off the Hagushi beaches on western Okinawa on 1 April.

In the course of the fight anti-aircraft projectiles struck in the LSM's well deck, wounding nine embarked marines and two "bluejackets".

For the remainder of the war LSM–175 carried rolling stock and mixed cargo to the Marianas and amongst the Philippines, returning to Okinawa in mid-August.

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