USS Bell (DD-587) was a Fletcher-class destroyer. She was launched on 24 June 1942 and commissioned on 4 March 1943. Lynn Chism Petross was her captain from commissioning until 9 April 1944. Through November 1943 she worked on patrol and convoy escort in the North Atlantic, and in August she made one crossing to Britain.
On 6 November she sailed for the Pacific and reached Pearl Harbor on 27 November. She joined Task Force 58. With that force she was in the attacks on Kavieng, New Ireland, on 25 December 1943 and on 1 and 4 January 1944; the Kwajalein invasion in the Marshall Islands from 29 January to 2 February; the strike at Truk on 17 and 18 February; a Marianas raid on 21 and 22 February; a Carolines strike from 30 March to 1 April; and the Hollandia landings from 21 to 24 April.
Her schedule stayed heavy through the summer and early autumn. She took part in the Saipan invasion from 12 to 24 June, a first raid on the Bonins on 15 and 16 June, the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 and 20 June, a second Bonins raid on 24 June, a third on 3 and 4 July, the Guam invasion on 21 July, raids in the western Carolines from 25 to 28 July, a fourth Bonins raid on 4 and 5 August, Palau raids from 6 to 8 September, and raids in the Philippine Islands from 9 to 24 September. An Okinawa raid followed on 10 October. With Task Force 38 she was in the Formosa raids from 12 to 17 October. Between 15 and 29 October she helped escort Houston and Canberra on the run that began off Formosa and ended at Ulithi.
Bell came back to the Third Fleet for strikes on Luzon from 5 November to 16 December 1944 and for the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, also on Luzon, from 4 to 18 January 1945. After dark on 31 January 1945, at 13 degrees 20 minutes north and 119 degrees 20 minutes east, she, O'Bannon, and Ulvert M. Moore sank the Japanese submarine Ro-115.
She then went to the Puget Sound Navy Yard for repairs and arrived on 27 February. Burton Herbert Shupper became captain on 10 April 1945. She left the west coast on 22 April and reached Leyte on 29 May. From there she covered the landings at Brunei Bay from 7 to 10 June and at Balikpapan, Borneo, from 1 to 3 July. Patrol and convoy escort in the Philippines occupied her until the war ended.
Occupation duty came next, at Okinawa and in China and Korea. On 14 December 1945 she departed for San Francisco and arrived on 4 January 1946. On 14 June 1946 she was decommissioned into reserve and assigned to the San Diego Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Bell survived the war. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1972. On 11 May 1975 the hull was sunk as a target. Her World War II service earned twelve battle stars.