Bill Text: PA SB1252 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Redesignating Davis Street Bridge, over Interstate 81 at Exit 182, Moosic Borough, Lackawanna County, as the Andrew A. Pompey and Durando J. Pompey Memorial Bridge.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-24 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [SB1252 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1252-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1532
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1252 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY BLAKE, MENSCH, ORIE, BAKER, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE, McILHINNEY, M. WHITE, COSTA, HUGHES, SCHWANK, GREENLEAF, BOSCOLA, PIPPY, SOLOBAY, BREWSTER, BRUBAKER, ALLOWAY, FERLO AND BROWNE, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
AN ACT
Redesignating Davis Street Bridge, over Interstate 81 at Exit
182, Moosic Borough, Lackawanna County, as the Andrew A.
Pompey and Durando J. Pompey Memorial Bridge.
WHEREAS, Andrew A. Pompey was the oldest son of Louis and
Regina Parlanti, born on May 1, 1917, in Minooka; and
WHEREAS, He volunteered for service in the United States Army
days after Pearl Harbor was inducted on February 7, 1942; and
WHEREAS, After basic training, he volunteered for a new
branch of the service, the parachute infantry; and
WHEREAS, He became part of the first parachute division in
United States Army history, the 82nd Airborne, and was assigned
to its first regiment, 504th PIR, nicknamed the "devils in baggy
pants" from a German officer's diary; and
WHEREAS, After parachute training, he and the rest of the
82nd Airborne were shipped to North Africa; and
WHEREAS, He participated in two combat jumps in active
combat, first in Sicily, Italy, where his plane was hit by
friendly fire, and next at Salerno, Italy, where he assisted in
saving the Allied beachhead, and he was promoted to the rank of
staff sergeant; and
WHEREAS, On January 26, 1944, Staff Sergeant Andrew A. Pompey
led his squad on an assault of a bridge spanning the Mussolini
Canal near Sassano, Italy, and was killed by artillery; and
WHEREAS, Initially, he was buried at the American Cemetery at
Nettuno, Italy; and
WHEREAS, Later, he was exhumed and reinterred at the Italian-
American Cemetery adjacent to Davis Street, Scranton, near the
Davis Street Bridge; and
WHEREAS, Durando J. Pompey was born on September 1, 1921, to
Louis and Regina Parlanti Pompey in Minooka; and
WHEREAS, He also volunteered for the United States Army and
was inducted on September 7, 1942; and
WHEREAS, After basic training, he married Helen Rovinski on
May 3, 1943; and
WHEREAS, In February 1944, he was shipped to England in
anticipation of the invasion of Europe; and
WHEREAS, He landed with his division on June 8, 1944, on
Omaha Beach; and
WHEREAS, Shortly after landing on Omaha Beach, the division
went on attack through the French hedgerows toward Pont Hebert
and St. Lo; and
WHEREAS, On July 13, 1944, the Germans preceded a
counterattack with a concentrated artillery barrage, and Private
First Class Durando J. Pompey was killed in that barrage; and
WHEREAS, He was initially buried in Le Combe Cemetery in
France and later exhumed at the request of his wife and
reinterred in the American Cemetery in Long Island, New York.
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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Andrew A. Pompey and Durando J. Pompey Memorial
Bridge.
(a) Redesignation.--The Davis Street Bridge, over Interstate
81 at Exit 182, Moosic Borough, Lackawanna County, is
redesignated as the Andrew A. Pompey and Durando J. Pompey
Memorial Bridge.
(b) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate road 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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