USS Albert T. Harris (DE-447) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II.

After a period of training, some of which he spent on the battleship USS New York, he was discharged on 15 June 1941, to accept an appointment as a midshipman in the Naval Reserve the following day.

On the afternoon of 12 November 1942, newly promoted Lieutenant (junior grade) Harris commanded the antiaircraft battery on the aft machine gun platform when 21 Japanese twin-engined torpedo planes (Mitsubishi G4M1 Betties) attacked San Francisco's task group near Lunga Point.

He directed the fire of his 20-millimeter guns on an approaching Japanese torpedo plane that had been set ablaze by gunfire from the nearby transport USS McCawley.

The destroyer escort spent three weeks at New York outfitting before embarking on her shakedown cruise to the British West Indies late in December.

The warship transited the Panama Canal in mid-February and continued, via the Galápagos and Society Islands, to Manus in the Admiralties.

Albert T. Harris served as part of a demonstration group making a feint at Morotai during the occupation of the Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao between 17 and 23 April and participated in the surface force that covered the landings at Santa Cruz on Davao Gulf on 3 and 4 May.

Following Japan's capitulation, the warship joined the South China Force to assist in the occupation of territory still held by Japanese forces, a mission that took her to Shanghai and Hong Kong in China, Haiphong and Hongay in French Indochina, Korea, and the island of Formosa.

The North Korean invasion of South Korea late in June 1950 triggered an expansion in the Navy's active fleet.