USS Bridget explained

USS Bridget (DE-1024) was a 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.

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  1. Web site: Alsleben . Allan . US Patrol Wing 10 in the Dutch East Indies, 1942 . 1999–2000 . Dutch East Indies Campaign website . 30 March 2021 . 16 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210416153418/http://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/patrol_wing10.html . dead .
  2. Book: Whitman . John . Bataan: Our Last Ditch . 1990 . Hippocrene Books . New York . 0870528777 . 257.