Editing USS Algol (AKA-54) (section)

===Korean War===
====1950====
In August 1950, just weeks after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], she was transferred to the Pacific. The ship embarked elements of the [[1st Marine Division (United States)|1st Marine Division]] at San Diego and set sail for [[Kobe]], [[Japan]], on 31 August. ''Algol'' arrived in Kobe on 16 September but put to sea again the following day to join in the [[Battle of Inchon|Inchon invasion]]. The initial assault at Inchon had gone forward the day before ''Algol''{{'}}s arrival in Japan. Her mission, therefore, was one of resupply and reinforcement. She remained at Inchon, unloading, from 21 to 27 September. On the 28th the attack cargo ship headed back to Japan.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

''Algol'' returned to Inchon on 8 October and embarked Headquarters Company, 1st Ordnance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, for what was to have been an amphibious assault at [[Wonsan]] on the northwestern coast of Korea. However, United Nations (UN) naval gunfire and air activity forced the [[North Korea]]ns back from the coastal plain into the highlands. This enabled [[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] forces ashore to move northward and occupy Wonsan themselves. UN troops, therefore, landed unopposed during the last week in October. Following that, the ship returned to Japan and remained there until early December.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

At that time, the Chinese intervened in force and sent the UN forces reeling southward. ''Algol'' went to [[Nampho|Chinnampo]] where she assisted in the evacuation of UN troops during the first week in December. The following week, she moved to Inchon to help evacuate troops at that location.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

====1951–1952====
Those operations lasted until the beginning of the second week in January 1951. For the next two months, the attack cargo ship visited a number of ports in both Japan and Korea. Early in March, she participated in an amphibious feint at Chinnampo and then headed back to Japan. In late April and early May, ''Algol'' visited [[Hong Kong]]. There, she embarked the [[28th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|British 28th Brigade]] and transported it to Inchon. After that mission, she returned to Japan where she conducted amphibious exercises until 17 June. On that day, the ship shaped a course back to the United States. She arrived in San Diego, California, on 30 June.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

Between July 1951 and March 1952, she conducted training missions along the coast of southern California and between there and the Hawaiian Islands. She completed a yard period in Pearl Harbor in March 1952 and put to sea on her way to the Far East. She arrived in Japan late that month and took part in amphibious exercises off the island of [[Hokkaidō]]. ''Algol'' visited [[Yokosuka, Kanagawa|Yokosuka]] early in April and, from there, moved to Hong Kong for a two-week port call. May brought a visit to Subic Bay in the Philippines followed by more training exercises at [[Otaru, Hokkaidō|Otaru, Japan]]. Exercises with units of the [[United States Seventh Fleet|7th Fleet]] punctuated by visits to a number of Oriental ports occupied her time for most of the remainder of 1952. By December, the attack cargo ship was on her way back to the west coast. She arrived in [[Long Beach, California]], on 15 December 1952.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}