Amos A. Plante was born on May 11, 1900 in Mooers, New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Plante who resided in Albany, New York. He was graduated from Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He interned at Orange Memorial Hospital and had practiced in Maplewood in 1928. He resided in Maplewood, Essex County, New Jersey prior to the war. When he entered the Army, he was a medical examiner for Maplewood Draft Board 16, and was Board of Health physician, a post he held in 1935. As part of his health work, he was in charge of the township's Infant Welfare Clinic. In 1935, he was township police surgeon and helped to establish a first aid room in the police headquarters.

Amos served as a Captain, 216th General Hospital, U.S. Army during World War II. He was commissioned as a Captain in November 1943 and went overseas in March 1944, being stationed in England. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. CPT Plante died at the age of 45 and is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.

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