USS Savage (DE-386) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II.

After instruction at the Navy Supply Corps School, Harvard University, Ensign Savage reported to the USS Arizona for duty as Assistant Paymaster.

[1] Commencing Thanksgiving Day of 1943, the ship was subjected to a rigorous training schedule including gunnery practice, submarine warfare tactics, maneuvering, and the hundreds of other tasks demanded of a man-o-war.

[citation needed] On Christmas Day, Savage completed her training and ship and crew reported to Norfolk, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Fleet.

This task force was engaged in escorting convoys of 60 to 80 merchant ships from United States ports to the Mediterranean Theatre.

[citation needed] On 1 April 1944, Convoy UGS 36, whose escort included USS Savage, was attacked by thirty enemy aircraft north of Algiers, Algeria.

[1] During the latter half of 1944 and the first six months of 1945, USS Savage escorted high-speed troop convoys between New York and the British Isles to support the final assault on Nazi Germany.

[citation needed] Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, Savage sailed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she was fitted with more anti-aircraft guns.

[1] After transiting the Panama Canal on 18 June 1945, she proceeded from San Francisco to the Aleutian Islands and arrived at Adak on 8 July 1945.

Radar picket escort destroyers were employed to detect these aircraft moving toward North America on a polar route.

[citation needed] Savage was redesignated a radar picket escort destroyer (DER-386) on 3 September 1954 and recommissioned on 18 February 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts;[1] with Lt. Cmdr.

She guarded against sea infiltration by North Vietnamese and assisted land forces by providing naval gunfire support.

[citation needed] On 1 February 1969 she arrived back in Pearl Harbor and entered the naval shipyard for restricted availability and upkeep.