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Plante Napoleon E.

Name:
Napoleon E. Plante
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
31108138
Unit:
22nd Bomber Squadron, 341st Bomber Group, Medium
Date of Death:
1944-03-18
State:
New Hampshire
Cemetery:
Manila American Cemetery, Taguig, Philippines
Plot:
Walls of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:

Napoleon E. Plante was born in 1922. He resided in Strafford County, New Hampshire prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on April 22, 1942 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was noted as being employed in the manufacture of boots and shoes and also as Single, without dependents. Napoleon served as a Staff Sergeant and Gunner in the 22nd Bomber Squadron, 341st Bomber Group, Medium, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

On March 18, 1944, on a low level combat mission to Vinh, French Indo China (now Vietnam), the B-25 Mitchell bomber in which S/Sgt. Plante was a crew member, was shot down by enemy ground fire, crashing into a river killing S/Sgt. Plante and all others aboard including: 1st Lt. Thomas J. Smith; 2nd Lt. Robert E. Caldwell; T/Sgt. Charles C. Evans; and S/Sgt. Walter Altman.

Ssgt Plante was declared "Missing in Action" and is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China but his name is inscribed as Napolson and death date as 1944-03-13.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov