Specialist Donald Stiles Memorial Bridge

Act 124 of 2014, § 2, under PRICATE EDWIN TUBBS MEMORIAL BRIDGE, SPECIALIST DONALD STILES MEMORIAL BRIDGE, PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ROGER P. DOWNEY MEMORIAL BRIDGE, PFC. JAMES E. LUDWIG MEMORIAL BRIDGE, OFFICER BRADLEY M. FOX MEMORIAL BRIDGE, VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY AND SGT. ANDREW J. "AJ" BADDICK MEMORIAL BRIDGE.

Act 124 of 2014, § 2

Section 2. Specialist Donald Stiles Memorial Bridge.

(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares that:

(1) Specialist Donald Stiles enlisted in the United States Army at 17 years of age.

(2) Specialist Stiles was deployed to Vietnam as an atomic demolition munitions specialist with A Battery, First Battalion, Seventh Artillery, First Infantry Division.

(3) On April 2, 1968, Specialist Stiles was killed in action in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, after taking a fellow soldier's place on a mission and being hit by bomb fragments from a land mine.

(b) Change of name.--The State Route 872 Bridge near Coudersport Borough/Eulalia Township Border, Potter County, is hereby renamed the Specialist Donald Stiles Memorial Bridge.

(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the changed name of the bridge to traffic in both directions on the bridge.