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Cau Thach Han (Cầu Thạch Hăn)
Vietnamese. ‘Thach Han Bridge’. Name
of a bridge over the Thach Han River in Hai Lang
(Hải Lăng) District of
Vietnam's Quang Tri (Quảng Trị)
Province, in the North Central Region and located alongside the historically important
Cau Quang Tri
(fig.),
a railway bridge which during the
Second
Indochina War
saw some fierce fighting. Today
it is the site of a memorial fashioned with
20 large red drops of blood, symbolizing the sacrifice of the 20 heroes of
the
Viet Cong's Mai Quoc Ca Platoon,
out of whom 19 men lost their lives in an effort to capture the
strategically important Quang Tri Bridge on 10 April 1972, while the
only surviving soldier was seriously injured and captured by the enemy.
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