USS Gatling (DD-671) was a Fletcher-class destroyer. She was launched on 20 June 1943 and commissioned on 19 August 1943, with Alvin Franklin Richardson in command from that day until 27 December 1944.
Shakedown was run from Bermuda. Early in November 1943 she was altered at New York, then went to Norfolk and took prospective crews to sea for training while their own destroyers were still on the ways. On 19 November she sailed to Trinidad and escorted the carrier Langley back to Norfolk. On 3 December she left Norfolk with Intrepid, crossed the Panama Canal, and reached San Francisco on 22 December. She sailed for Pearl Harbor the next day.
Vincent James Meola relieved Richardson on 27 December 1944 and remained in command until 26 November 1945, when Frank L. Fullaway took over. Gatling survived the war. In that service she covered more than 175,000 miles, and enemy action, sickness, and accident took none of her men. She left commission on 16 July 1946 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, berthed at Charleston, South Carolina.
Charleston put her back in commission on 4 June 1951. She worked along the Atlantic seaboard and in West Indian waters until August 1952, then went to the Boston Navy Yard for repairs. That autumn she left Newport, Rhode Island, in company with NATO forces and visited Scotland, Norway, and Belgium. She also called at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and at San Juan, Puerto Rico. On 3 June 1953 she reached Tokyo, then continued to Manila, Saigon, Singapore, and Colombo. After the Suez Canal she called in France and Portugal and was back at Philadelphia in December 1953. With repairs finished and a training period in New England behind her, she crossed to Portugal, France, and Italy, recrossed the Atlantic, passed the Panama Canal, and on 7 October 1955 arrived at Guayaquil, Ecuador. The ship was sold for scrap on 22 February 1977.