He was the most unlikely Marine I've ever known but he served proudly and was killed on August 27, 1968. I told my Dad, a minister, that Bob could die in Vietnam - it was getting ugly by 67-68. I was a senior in Army Quartermaster OCS when Dad told me that Bob joined the Marines in May, 1967. Hi: My name is Gary Washburn and Bob, my kid brother, was known as Peabody in the 3/3.
45 pistol that I picked upn my way there.At this point cpl Lee and cpl Hall could not see me so they came up to check on me.When they got there they ask are you ok.I said yes and started out the bunker with the machine gun,when a nva came out the next bunker and sprayed the area with an AK47 killing both Lee and Hall,then turned and ran back into the bunker.Then I took the enemy machine gun back to our lines and laied down a base of fire with it while Lt.Kenerly and others went up and got thrir bodies.Then the words came down to start moving the dead and wounded back to the LZ.When we got back there we found out we were still missing some bodies,then I think it was Col.Marsh ask for volunteers to go back.So I threw the enemy machine gun on the medvac chopper and volunteered to go back and look for them with ColMarsh and two orthers.We found the bodies and got back to the LZ.It was a terible day,lost a lot of good buddies that day.Are any of you guys still around that came over and fired the enemy machine gun?Wish I could get a picture of it but never saw it again after I put it on the chopper.SIMPER FI Bobby out in front of our lines,I ask for covering fire while I crawled out to get it.When i got to their trenches there was a wounded nva lieing face down with his hand trying to get a chicom off his back pack.I shot him with a. The bridge was designed and built in the shape of a dragon and to breathe fire and water each Saturday and Sunday night at 9 pm.On march 6 /68 during a big fire fight with dug in nva late that evening the n.v.a started retreving back into the dmz.I spotted a 30 caliber machine about 35 yds. This modern bridge crosses the Han River at the Le Dinh Duong/Bach Dang traffic circle, providing the shortest road link from the Da Nang International Airport to other main roads in Da Nang city, and a more direct route to My Khe Beach and Non Nuoc Beach on the eastern edge of the city. The bridge was opened to traffic on March 29, 2013, the 38th anniversary of the capture of Da Nang City by North Vietnamese forces (known as the Liberation of Da Nang in Vietnam) during the Vietnam War (known as the American War in Vietnam). The main span was completed on October 26, 2012. 508, an affiliate of Civil Construction Engineering Corporation No.5, and Bridge Company No.
Construction was undertaken by Company No. The bridge was designed by the US-based Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers with Louis Berger Group. It opened to traffic on March 29, 2013, at a cost of nearly VND 1.5 trillion dong ( US$88m). ĭragon Bridge is 666m long, 37.5m wide and has six lanes for traffic. The Dragon Bridge ( Vietnamese: Cầu Rồng) is a bridge over the River Hàn at Da Nang, Vietnam.Ĭonstruction of the bridge began on 19 July 2009 (the same day as the inauguration of the nearby Thuận Phước Bridge) when the former Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung and many high-ranking government officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony. 1 construction main structure ( Pier, main girder, arch)
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