End of Career
The destroyer operated along the Atlantic coast until returning to the Mediterranean in April 1968. Operating with the 6th Fleet until September, Massey arrived back at Newport and operated off the east coast into 1969. In 1969, Massey became a Naval Reserve training ship and operated in that role along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean until she decommissioned and stricken from the register on 17 September 1973. She was sold 13 November 1974 and broken up for scrap.
Massey received two battle stars for World War II service and four battle stars for Korean service.
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