Section 6. Staff Sergeant Guy E. Shelley Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Staff Sergeant Guy E. Shelley was born in Harrisburg and resided in nearby New Cumberland at the time of his military service.
(2) Staff Sergeant Shelley was a Gunner and the Assistant Flight Engineer on the Lady Be Good, an American B-24D Liberator stationed in Soluch, Libya. This small desert airstrip was about 34 miles southeast of Benghazi.
(3) On April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good was one of 25 bombers of the 514th/376th Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Forces that took off in a sandstorm to strike Naples, Italy. The 700-mile mission began at 3:10 p.m.
(4) The Lady Be Good was the only B-24 that did not safely return, and, at approximately 2 a.m., the Liberator ran out of fuel, and her crew bailed out some 440 miles southeast of Soluch.
(5) Most of the nine-member crew survived the crash and lived more than a week with little water or food in a desert with 130 degree daytime temperatures and nighttime temperatures of 35 degrees. Eight of the crew trekked 85 miles from the crash site, with three members, including Staff Sergeant Shelley, traveling an additional 20-plus miles in search of rescue. All crew members died in the desert despite their valiant efforts to survive.
(6) Wreckage of the B-24 was eventually discovered, and the remains of Staff Sergeant Shelley and his Lady Be Good crewmates were recovered 17 years after the crash and returned to the United States for interment.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on State Route 1003, Old York Road, over the Pennsylvania Turnpike, in Fairview Township, York County, is hereby designated the Staff Sergeant Guy E. Shelley Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to traffic in both directions on the bridge.