Post-War
After a visit to New York and installation of radar-guided fire control equipment for her 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, the USS Savannah became the flagship of a midshipmen's training squadron under Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty. The Savannah departed from Annapolis on 7 June for training at sea with over 400 midshipmen embarked. After two such cruises to Cuba and back, the Savannah debarked the midshipmen at Annapolis on 30 September, took on others, and steamed on 1 October towards Pensacola, Florida. She spent the Navy Day celebrations from the 25th to the 30th of October 1945 in her namesake city of Savannah, Georgia. She then returned to Norfolk on 1 November to prepare for service in the huge "Operation Magic Carpet" naval fleet which was returning hundreds of thousands of overseas war veterans home to the United States
The Savannah departed from Norfolk on 13 November, and she reached Le Havre, France, on 20 November. The following day, she put to sea with 1,370 enlisted men and 67 officer passengers, bringing them to New York Harbor on 28 November. She completed another similar voyage on 17 December.
The USS Savannah's home base was shifted to the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 19 December for her deactivation overhaul. She was placed in commission in reserve on 22 April 1946, and was finally decommissioned on 3 February 1947. Unlike many of her sister who were transferred to the navies of Brazil, Chile and Argentina in 1951, the damage she sustained off of Salerno, while repaired, precluded her from being considered for foreign transfer. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1959, and she was sold for scrapping on 25 January 1966 to the Bethlehem Steel Company.
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