Keywords: US Navy 030627-N-3228G-007 Former USS Orleck (DD 886) crewmembers depart the Battleship Missouri with the USS Arizona Memorial in the background.jpg en Pearl Harbor Hawaii Jun 27 2003 -- Former USS Orleck DD 886 crewmembers depart the Battleship Missouri with the USS Arizona Memorial in the background More than 200 former crewmembers of the Orleck who served in WWII Korea and Vietnam and their families held a memorial service aboard the decommissioned battleship USS Orleck was the last of the Gearing Class destroyers decommissioned and transferred to the Turkish Navy Oct 1 1982 and operated there as TCG Yucetepe D 345 until her final decommissioning Apr 1 1998 USS Orleck was later returned to the family of the ship s namesake Lt Joseph Orleck who plan to restore and open the ship as a non-profit museum U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class William R Goodwin RELEASED 2003-06-27 030627-N-3228G-007 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 8376 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class William R Goodwin PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Arizona Memorial Photographs by William R Goodwin |