USS Bullard (DD-660) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 28 February 1943 and commissioned on 9 April 1943, with Glenn Roy Hartwig as her first commanding officer.
Her first months were given to short spells of duty off the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean. She then crossed to the Pacific and reached Pearl Harbor on 29 August 1943. From that arrival until the end of the fighting, a single return to California, from 10 September 1944 to 18 February 1945, was the only long break in her time with the forward forces. In those waters she furnished gunfire support, guarded carriers while aircraft were landing and taking off, patrolled, and stood radar picket duty.
In the fall of 1943 she joined the Wake Island raid of 5–6 October, the strike on Rabaul on 11 November, and the assault on Tarawa from 19 November to 1 December. The new year took her into the occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, from 22 January through March 1944.
Landings in the Admiralty Islands followed, from 30 March to 13 April, and then the operation at Hollandia, from 16 April to 4 May. Across the summer she was with the forces that took Saipan and Guam, from 10 June to 17 August. Bernard William Freund commanded her from 1943 through this long Pacific stretch, holding the ship until 31 May 1945.
Bullard was assigned to the Okinawa operation from 15 March to 31 May 1945. On 11 April a Japanese kamikaze hit her and caused only light damage. The repairs were finished at Okinawa. She sailed on 31 May and made for Leyte. Henry Frederick Rodner became captain that day, and Eigel Thornton Steen relieved him on 16 June 1945.
On 1 July she left Leyte Gulf and took part in the Third Fleet raids against Japan, from 10 July to 15 August. After the fighting ended she stayed in the Far East on occupation duty until 10 November 1945, then sailed for San Pedro, California, and arrived on 3 December.
Through most of 1946 she served along the west coast, then went to San Diego to be inactivated. She was placed out of commission in reserve on 20 December 1946. Nine battle stars marked her World War II service. Her name was removed from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1972. On 3 December 1973 she was sold and broken up for scrap, having survived the war.