Darl B. Bell

The Navy Cross is awarded to Seaman Darl B. Bell, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving on the U.S.S. Chestnut Hill. When a gasoline explosion and fire broke out on board that vessel on October 9, 1918, at sea, Seaman Bell jumped into a wing tank at the risk of his life to extinguish burning waste on the top of leaky cases of gasoline.