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From the S&S archives: U.S. Navy Seabees at work in South Vietnam, 1967

Photos by Gerard Forken, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, December 10, 1967

U.S. Navy Seabees from Tango Detail of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 rebuild a bridge shelled by the Viet Cong at Phu Loc on Route 1, a key link between Hue and Da Nang.

Seabees fit together the pieces of the 210-by-24-foot timber bridge across the river at Phu Loc.

Seabee Petty Officer Daniel J. Gomez operates a pile driver.

A heavily-loaded gives the partially-completed bridge a test.

Seabees and their Marine guards clean up after a busy day of bridge construction on Route 1.

Pfc. Roger Spradley of Stuart, Fla., and E Company, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines, writes home during a break from guarding Seabees working on the bridge.

Read the story that accompanied these photos here.