(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Abner Yoder graduated from Hegins High School in
1936, was active in his local church and played on the
Pitman's Farmers baseball team.
(2) On July 18, 1941, he joined the United States Army
Air Corps and rose to the level of Technical Sergeant by
August of 1943.
(3) During his time in the Air Corps, he traveled to
Australia, where he met his fiancée and joined a combat crew
which flew missions on a B-52.
(4) On February 17, 1944, the plane he was on with his
crew had engine troubles and attempted to return to the base
but stalled and crashed. The entire crew, including Abner
Yoder, was killed in the plane crash.
(5) Abner Yoder was 26 at the time of his death and he
was buried at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila, near
other fallen members of the Armed Forces.
(b) Designation.--The bridge on State Route 125 before Ridge
Road in Pitman, Schuylkill County, is designated as the Abner
Yoder 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.
Section 4. General Carl A. Spaatz Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz was born in Boyertown,
Berks County, on June 28, 1891.
(2) Drawn to aviation, after graduating from West Point
in 1914 and being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the
infantry, Mr. Spaatz studied at the Aviation School at San
Diego, California.
(3) Mr. Spaatz served with the 1st Aero Squadron as a
first lieutenant under General John "Black Jack" Pershing
during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico.
(4) After being promoted to captain in May 1917, Mr.
Spaatz served in France with the American Expeditionary
Forces during World War I and, as a fighter pilot, shot down
three German Fokker planes behind enemy lines, which earned
him the Distinguished Service Cross.
(5) Mr. Spaatz was promoted to major on July 1, 1920,
and during the interwar years he proceeded up the ranks of a
peacetime Air Corps.
(6) Mr. Spaatz was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for commanding the refueling endurance flight of the
Question Mark plane from January 1 through 7, 1929, during
which the plane broke a record for sustained flight.
(7) After the United States entered into World War II,
in 1942, Mr. Spaatz was named chief of the Air Force Combat
Command and was sent to England to initiate the planning
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