Section 9. Alexander Miller Abercrombie Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) The late Alexander Miller Abercrombie, Technician 5th Class, United States Army, of Revloc, Cambria County, was born May 7, 1921, in Kilsyth, Scotland.
(2) Technical Sergeant Abercrombie's family arrived in the United States April 23, 1923.
(3) Technical Sergeant Abercrombie attended Ebensburg-Cambria High School for one year before enlisting in the United States Army September 9, 1942.
(4) Technical Sergeant Abercrombie entered active military service September 20, 1942.
(5) Technical Sergeant Abercrombie completed Airborne training and served in Alaska before joining the Allied Campaign in Europe as a member of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
(6) While serving in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, Technical Sergeant Abercrombie and more than 100 members of his company came under attack during the course of a night raid launched April 11, 1945.
(7) Technical Sergeant Abercrombie, who was 24 years of age, was mortally wounded April 12, 1945, by German artillery after crossing the Rhine River into the village of Himmelgeist, Germany.
(8) Awarded the Purple Heart, Technical Sergeant Abercrombie was killed in action along with three other American paratroopers and is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, the Netherlands.
(b) Change of name.--The bridge on U.S. Route 219 which carries over to U.S. Route 422 in Ebensburg Borough, Cambria County, is hereby renamed the Alexander Miller Abercrombie Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs which shall display the name of the bridge designated in subsection (b).