PRINTER'S NO. 678
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
605
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY BURNS, HENNESSEY, KINSEY, COHEN, COX, DUSH,
SONNEY, KIM, MUSTIO, KOTIK, DiGIROLAMO, ROZZI, THOMAS,
TOEPEL, MILLARD, SCHWEYER, WHEELAND, CALTAGIRONE, McNEILL,
ELLIS, YOUNGBLOOD, W. KELLER, LONGIETTI, D. COSTA, FARINA,
VEREB, SANKEY, MAJOR, BROWNLEE, TALLMAN, MARSICO, DONATUCCI,
MAHONEY, MURT, WATSON AND SAINATO, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
AN ACT
Renaming the bridge on that portion of U.S. Route 219 over U.S.
Route 422 in Ebensburg Borough, Cambria County, as the
Alexander Miller Abercrombie Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. 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.
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(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).
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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