Engineer Memoirs _____________________________________________________________________
Dalat to do work up there at Camly Airfield. Then the Delta Company we'd taken over from
the 589th, along with A Company and the headquarters, were at Don Duong. So, the 577th
was going to be at three points of a triangle, Dalat, Don Duong, Duc Trong, with the
headquarters at Don Duong.
So, we computed when we thought we would finish the Tuy Hoa jobs and set up the schedule
to try to start moving folks down to the new area of operation. That really, then, was the time
when we had a schedule that was fixed and one we wanted to meet. We always had a source
of pride in the battalion that we met that schedule. We finished the Ban Thach bridge on the
final schedule that we had developed.
The completed Ban Thach bridge was dedicated on 7 December 1968.
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