High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! During World War II, LST-758 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the assault and occupation of Iwo Jima in February, 1945 and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto in April through June, 1945. Following the war, she performed occupation duty in the Far East until mid-September 1945. LST-758 was decommissioned on 13 July 1946, and recommissioned on 3 November 1950 for service in the Korean War. She saw service in Korea until late Nov 1953. I James E. Thompson went aboard the 758 in Nov. 1950 and was discharged from it on Feb. 1 1954.