Post-war Decommissioning
Bland completed this mission and carried out one more Magic Carpet voyage before departing San Francisco on 7 February 1946 and proceeding, via Panama, to the U.S. East Coast. She reached Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 March and was decommissioned there on 27 April 1946. Bland was turned over to the War Shipping Administration the next day, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 May 1946. Placed in reserve in the James River, she was ultimately sold to the Consolidated Steel Corp. of Brownsville, Texas, on 23 January 1974, along with sisterships USS Bandera (AP-131), USS Buckingham (APA-141), USS Drew (APA-162) and USS Eastland (APA-163) for scrap.
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