Allied Warships

USS McCalla (ii) (DD 488)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 488
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	15 Sep 1941
Launched	20 Mar 1942
Commissioned	27 May 1942
End service	17 May 1946
History	Decommissioned 17 May 1946. Stricken 7 June 1949. Transferred to Turkey on 28 April 1949 being renamed Giresun. Giresun was stricken and scraped in 1973.

Commands listed for USS McCalla (ii) (DD 488)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. William Goodwin Cooper, USN	27 May 1942	12 Apr 1943
2	T/Cdr. Halford A Knoertzer, USN	12 Apr 1943	17 Dec 1943
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Edwin Kuykendall Jones, USN	17 Dec 1943	12 Aug 1944
4	Lt James Blaine Sweeny, Jr., USNR	12 Aug 1944	13 Aug 1944
5	Eli Vinock, USN	13 Aug 1944	17 May 1946

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Notable events involving McCalla (ii) include:

7 Jul 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) anchored off Saipan Island and fuelled the destroyers USS Lardner (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Parker, USN) and USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E.K. Jones, USN). She got underway again later the same day.

13 Jul 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) anchored off Saipan Island and fuelled the destroyers USS Lardner (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Parker, USN) and USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E.K. Jones, USN). She got underway again later the same day.