Post-war
Following the Okinawa operation Helm served as an escort and patrol ship out of Ulithi and Leyte, and helped to search for survivors of ill-fated Indianapolis from August 3 to August 6, 1945. The ship was steaming toward Ulithi from Okinawa when the war ended on August 15. She returned to Okinawa and finally to Iwo Jima to join the Bonins patrol, for air-sea rescue work until September 8. The destroyer then sailed to Sasebo, Japan, where she served as shipping guide and patrol vessel until returning to Okinawa on September 26. After another stay in Japan, the ship departed for Pearl Harbor and San Diego on October 29.
Under the command of Lt. Allen G. Sibley, she returned to the United States on November 19, then sailed back to Pearl Harbor where she was decommissioned on June 26, 1946. Helm was used that summer as a target ship during the historic Operation Crossroads atomic tests in the Pacific, and her hulk was sold to Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, California, in October 1947 for scrapping.
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