USS McCall (DD-400) was a Gridley-class destroyer, launched at San Francisco on 20 November 1937 and commissioned on 22 June 1938. On 7 December 1941 she was steaming with the carrier Enterprise from Wake Island to Pearl Harbor. She screened the carriers in the early raids of 1942, served in the Aleutians, and was in the Solomons area for ten months from November 1942.
Early in 1944 she joined Task Force 58 and screened the carriers in their raids on the Marshalls, Palau, Hollandia and Truk. She sortied from Majuro on 6 June 1944 for the Marianas, and on 19 and 20 June was in the carrier screen during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. On 10 July, patrolling off Guam with Gridley, her crew saw a heliograph signal from a cliff. A volunteer landing party in a whaleboat brought off George R. Tweed, a radioman first class who had been on Guam since 1939 and in hiding since the Japanese occupation. He brought information on Japanese strength and the disposition of troops and guns.
She screened the carriers at Palau, Yap and Ulithi, and was off Okinawa and then Leyte Gulf in October 1944. On 19 February 1945 she arrived in the transport area off Iwo Jima and stayed there well into March, screening the transports and giving shore bombardment, harassing and illumination fire. She left the Volcano Islands on 27 March 1945.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).