John Ripley (USMC) - Wikipedia
On Easter morning 1972, Captain Ripley repeatedly exposed himself to intense enemy fire over a three-hour period as he prepared to blow up an essential bridge in Dong Ha. [1] His actions …
‘Hold and Die’ — The Marine Who Became a Legend on Easter …
John Ripley planted explosives on a bridge while under fire to stop a Vietnam offensive. On Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, Capt. John Ripley surveyed the Dong Ha bridge over the Cua …
John Ripley Faced Enemy Fire for Three Hours to Stop the North ...
Oct 18, 2018 · The 3rd Battalion was shifted to protect the vital bridge that provided passage over the Cửa Việt, at Đông Hà. The 304th and 308th NVA Infantry Divisions were rolling south with …
Marine single-handedly destroyed a bridge in April 1972 - Task
Apr 3, 2024 · On April 2, the communist forces reached the Dong Ha Bridge over the Cua Viet River in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Marine Capt. John Walter Ripley, the Senior …
Somehow Blow the Bridge - HistoryNet
Apr 7, 2017 · The Seabees, Navy construction crews, had built a two-lane steel and concrete bridge with a wood roadbed across the Cua Viet at Dong Ha. The bridge figured prominently in …
A Case for Moral Courage: How Colonel John Ripley ... - The American TFP
Mar 22, 2012 · The 40th anniversary of the destruction of the Dong Ha Bridge — which delayed the North Vietnamese Army from taking Saigon for another three years — is a key historical …
How Ripley at the Bridge Became a Marine Corps Legend
This Marine legend dangled from the Dong Ha Bridge for some three hours as North Vietnamese soldiers took potshots at him. He took his time attaching 500 pounds of explosives to the …
Marine Corps Col. John W. Ripley - Military.com
Sep 2, 2017 · One of only a handful of U.S. advisors to the South Vietnamese Marine Corps (VNMC) left in country, Ripley's war was not yet over — nor was it for the ARVN troops trying …
This aerial photo, which looks north over the two bridges on the Cua Viet River at Dong Ha, was taken in 1969 when Naval Mobile Construction Bn 62 was building the bridge at Dong Ha. It …
The Bridge at Dong Ha | Proceedings - April 1989 Vol. 115/4/1,034
Two NVA infantry divisions spearheaded by a large tank column were closing in on the town of Dong Ha, site of a key highway bridge across the Cua Viet.