This photograph documents twin memorial plaques mounted on the ruined stonework of a bridge or dam structure, honoring the officers and enlisted men of the 1056th Engineers (Port Construction and Repair) who lost their lives when the bridge collapsed. Twisted reinforcing steel visible above the plaques attests to the violence of the structural failure. Such memorials were commonly erected by surviving comrades at the site of wartime engineering disasters to honor fallen personnel, including a Captain Arthur F. Gullo named among the dead or missing. Project: 218356