USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II.

On the day of her commissioning, Albert W. Grant departed Charleston Navy Yard for a shakedown cruise to Bermuda.

Albert W. Grant headed for Norfolk, Virginia, on 8 February, and five days later, she got underway to escort Hornet to Hawaii.

They transited the Panama Canal, joined more ships at San Diego, and finally arrived at Pearl Harbor on 4 March.

The ship sortied with TG 32.5 on 6 September for the assault on the Palaus and, during a two-week period in mid-September, conducted pre-invasion bombardment and supported the landings on Peleliu and Angaur.

On 17 October, Grant provided protection for Crosby while that fast transport landed troops on Suluan Island, Philippines.

On 24 October, Albert W. Grant joined TG 77.2 and sailed to engage a Japanese task force reported steaming northward from the Sulu Sea toward Surigao Strait.

Although their ship was down by the bow and listing heavily to port, the destroyer's crew got her engines working again and enabled her to retire to American-controlled waters in Leyte Gulf.

She stood out of Manila on 3 June to escort General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, embarked in Boise, on a tour of the Philippines.

She sailed to Adak, Alaska, and the day before she arrived there, received word of the Japanese capitulation on 15 August, and sortied with TF 49 for Ominato, Japan.