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| 1896 births | |
| 1990 deaths | |
| world war ii prisoners of war | |
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In 1936, Eldridge joined the Washington State Highway Department. He designed two of the state's most colossal bridges, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge . From the outset, Eldridge considered the Tacoma Narrows Bridge "his bridge." The Washington State Highway Department had challenged him to find money to help build it, and he did. Federal officials decided that Eldridge's design was too expensive, so they required the Washington State Toll Bridge Authority to hire noted suspension bridge engineer, Leon Moisseiff of New York as a consultant. When the bridge collapsed in 1940 , Eldridge accepted some of the blame. In late 1941 Eldridge worked for the U.S. Navy on Guam when World War II began. He was captured by the Japanese and spent the remainder of the war, three years and nine months, as a POW in a prisoner of war camp in Japan . EXTERNAL LINKS People of the 1940 Narrows Bridge |
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