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[1] during the Japanese attack on the Philippines on 8 December 1941.

Bridget commanded a Naval Battalion during the Battle of the Points.

[2] 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.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.