Section 29. Technical Sergeant Richard L. Beers Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Richard L. Beers was born August 30, 1923, in Fallentimber, Cambria County, and was the son of Levi R. Beers and Catherine (Van Scoyoc) Beers.
(2) Mr. Beers was a 1941 graduate of Beccaria Township High School and enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, attending aircraft maintenance and gunnery schools.
(3) Technical Sergeant Beers was a gunner on a B-17 when it was shot down over Saint-Nazaire, France.
(4) Technical Sergeant Beers was reported missing in action by the United States Department of War on November 12, 1942, and on November 1, 1943, it was verified he was killed on November 9, 1942.
(5) Technical Sergeant Beers was the first military member from the Coalport area that was killed in World War II.
(6) Technical Sergeant Beers was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and was buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, in June 1950.
(b) Designation.--The bridge, identified as Bridge Key 41697, on that portion of State Route 3019 over Clearfield Creek, on the border of Coalport Borough and Beccaria Township, Clearfield County, is designated the Technical Sergeant Richard L. Beers 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.