During this combat tour, which lasted into 1951, her missions included support of the Inchon invasion, shelling enemy targets ashore and patrolling the Taiwan Straits.

She participated in the Inchon invasion which spearheaded the ground offensive operations against the North Korean Communists.

At the outbreak of the Korean War she was fitted out for emergency ammunition carrying service, participating thereafter in the Inchon invasion in September 1950.

Combat Cargo Command had the initial job of providing the airlift for the Inchon invasion and subsequent airborne operations.

As American naval and ground forces carried out the vital Inchon invasion, which spearheaded an Allied offensive northward, LST-883 discharged emergency supplies and dueled with enemy guns.

For the Inchon invasion, both sections of MTACS-2 departed their respective locations and headed for the new front.

As U.S. forces prepared to leap northward with the Inchon invasion, Henderson was with the assault forces.

LST-898 recommissioned on 28 August 1950, loaded troops and vehicles at Kobe, Japan, for the Inchon invasion, then sailed 10 September for the west coast of Korea.

During the Korean War he provided firing cover to the U.S. Marines involved in the Inchon invasion.

Algol arrived in Kobe on 16 September but put to sea again the following day to join in the Inchon invasion.