Re: BONG SON BRIDGE -- 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction)

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Date Posted: 12:45:26 02/10/01 Sat
Author: James W Johnson
Subject: Re: BONG SON BRIDGE
In reply to: CORK PETERSON 's message, "BONG SON BRIDGE" on 11:55:56 12/11/99 Sat

Hi my name is Jim, i worked on the new bridge at Bong Son. I was with Co B of the 84th. I drove one of the bull dozers, was running around in the river building the road across the river so the pile driving crane could get down and drive piles. I left there in May of 1970 to come come. I go into Vietnam in march of 68 and was at a compound about half way between QuinNhon and BongSon and them we went south of QuinNhon to help build the road south towards tuywhay and then north to BongSon to build the new bridge. We had our compound right by the river there on the south side.

>THE PICTURES OF THE BRIDGE ON THIS SITE BRING BACK
>MEMORIES. IWAS WITH 523RD ENGR CO.PORT CONST. AND WE
>WENT TO BONG SON IN 1967 TO DRIVE A PILING PIER AND
>RESET THE DROPPED SPANS ON THE OLD BRIDGE. THIS WAS
>USED ALONG WITH THE RAILROAD BRIDGE UNTIL REPLACED BY
>NEW BRIEGE IN 1970. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OTHERS IN
>523RD.
>THANKS--CORK PETERSON

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