USS Garrard, a 4,247-ton Gilliam-class attack transport, was built at Wilmington, California, and was commissioned in March 1945. After shakedown training on the West Coast, Garrard departed Seattle in May with an Army Aviation Engineers unit, which she landed under Japanese air attack at Okinawa in late June. She then loaded replacement personnel, cargo, and mail at Leyte and delivered them by highline to units of the 3d Fleet, then operating off the Japanese coast. After serving briefly as a receiving ship at Eniwetok, she sailed a day before the Japanese surrender on another resupply mission to the 3d Fleet.

Upon rendezvousing with the 3d Fleet, Garrard embarked sailors and marines for occupation duty in Japan and delivered them to Yokosuka at the end of August. In September she steamed to Sendai, Japan, and back to transport liberated prisoners of war. In October she returned 726 veterans to Portland, Oregon. She then carried out one "Magic Carpet" voyage from San Francisco to the Philippines and back, returning in January 1946 with 905 more veterans. Garrard was decommissioned at Bellingham, Washington, and stricken from the Navy List in May 1946. She was placed in the Maritime Commission reserve fleet in June and was sold for scrapping in May 1965.