~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G3069: SGT Joseph W. Blakely, HQ Detachment interpreter (left), PFC Albert L. Bell, B Company (center), and PFC William T. Peele, Jr. of the 18th MP Brigade Command Mess, distribute slices of a special cake to the children of An Xuan Village in the 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade Tactical Area Of Responsibility during the ceremony to celebrate the opening of Friendship Bridge in Vietnam on 12 July 1968. The new bridge was the premier Civic Action project for Operation Stabilize. Courtesy of SP/4 Kenneth J. Marraccini, B Company & HQ Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, Vietnam, October 1968-December 1969.

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