for training purposes. Then, in the spring of 1949 she sailed for Turkey where she decommissioned 29 April 1949, transferred to the Turkish Navy and recommissioned the same day as TCG Giresun (D 345). Giresun was stricken and scrapped in 1973. Notes References External links USS McCalla website at Destroyer History Foundation history.navy.mil: USS McCalla navsource.org: USS McCalla hazegray.org: USS McCalla Gleaves-class destroyers of the United States Navy Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey 1942 ships World War II destroyers of the United States Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Turkish Navy Gleaves-class destroyers of the Turkish Navy