Kammala wannan jumla: "McCalla" nan da nan ya shiga cikin
yaƙin neman zaɓe na Solomon Islands. A ranar 7 ga Oktoba ta shiga Task Force 64 (TF 64), rundunar sojan ruwa na Rear Admiral Norman Scott, sannan ta kare jigilar kayayyaki da kayan tallafi ga sojan ruwa a Guadalcanal. An umurce su da su bincika kuma su halaka jiragen ruwa na abokan gaba da jiragen ruwa, rundunar ta yi sintiri a arewacin tsibirin. A daren 11 ga Oktoba da 13 ga Oktoba, sun haɗu da sojojin Japan daga Cape Esperance a karkashin Rear Admiral Aritomo Gotō wanda ke jagorantar ƙarfafawa zuwa Guadalcanal. A cikin yakin da ya biyo baya duka sojojin sun cika aikinsu, amma farashin Jafananci ya fi girma. An kashe Admiral Gotō, an rasa jirgin ruwa mai nauyi da mai hallaka, kuma an tilasta jirgin ruwa mai nauyi ya koma Japan don gyarawa. Bugu da kari, yayin da suke kokarin ceto wadanda suka tsira a rana mai zuwa, jiragen sama biyu na Japan, da kuma, sun nutse daga jirgin sama daga Henderson Field. Rundunar Admiral Scott ta rasa mai hallaka, yayin da lalacewar jirgin ruwa ya buƙaci gyaran jirgin ruwa. "McCalla" ya ceci 195 daga cikin ma'aikatan "Duncan", kuma ya kama 'yan ruwa uku na Japan.