Name USS Bridget Laid down 19 September 1955 Decommissioned September 1968 Construction started 19 September 1955 Length 96 m | Namesake Francis Joseph Bridget Commissioned 24 October 1957 Struck 12 November 1973 Launched 25 April 1956 | |
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USS Bridget (DE-1024) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named for Francis Joseph Bridget, a naval aviator who served on the Commander's Staff of Patrol Wing 10 during the Japanese attack on the Philippines on 8 December 1941. He was taken prisoner with the American forces on Bataan and was killed 15 December 1944 when a Japanese prison ship in which he was embarked was sunk off Olongapo, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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