PRINTER'S NO. 3184
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2350
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY IRVIN, SCHMITT, JAMES, BERNSTINE, KAUFFMAN,
KEPHART, STAATS, JOZWIAK, ROWE AND GILLEN, MAY 29, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 29, 2024
AN ACT
Designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 52783, carrying
Pennsylvania Route 913 over Shoup Run in Coalmont Borough,
Huntingdon County, as the Private Samuel H. Thompson Memorial
Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Private Samuel H. Thompson Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Samuel H. Thompson was born in Coalmont Borough,
Huntingdon County, on August 22, 1913.
(2) Private Thompson enlisted in the United States Army
Air Forces during World War II.
(3) Private Thompson served in the Philippines during
World War II in the 20th Air Base Group attached to the 28th
Materiel Squadron.
(4) Private Thompson was captured during the Battle of
the Philippines after the fall of Corregidor Island to the
Japanese in early 1942.
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(5) Private Thompson was sent to the Cabanatuan Prisoner
of War Camp in Central Luzon, Philippines, where he died of
illness and malnutrition on October 29, 1942, at 29 years of
age.
(6) Private Thompson is interred in Plot D, Row 3, Grave
209, at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila,
Philippines.
(7) For his valiant service, Private Thompson was
awarded the Prisoner of War Medal, World War II Victory
Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit
Citation, Army Good Conduct Medal and Asiatic-Pacific
Campaign Medal.
(b) Designation.--The bridge, identified as Bridge Key
52783, carrying Pennsylvania Route 913 over Shoup Run in
Coalmont Borough, Huntingdon County, is designated the Private
Samuel H. Thompson 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 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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