Arthur Vincent Plante Updated: 17 MAR 2021
Airman: a032001.htm Surname: Plante Init: A V Rank: F/O RCAF Sqdn: 433
P_link: p408.htm Plane: LAN NG233 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat
Crash_d: d120345 Buried_d: b310545 C_link: c032.htm At_Next: Horsens
4 Lancastere fra 433 BS skulle den 12.
marts 1945 nedkaste hver 6 x 1850 lbs MK IV miner i Kattegat (omkring
her). Kl. 17.46 lettede LAN NG233 fra
Skipton-on-Swale med F/O J. P. Farrell og hans besætning på deres 9. fælles
togt. Minerne blev kastet mellem 21.00 og 21.10. På hjemturen blev flyet
angrebet sydvest for Samsø kl. 21.27
og brød i brand. Ud for As Hoved (her)
ramte
LAN NG233 vandet og sank på få minutter. En dansk fisker
observerede nedstyrtningen og fik hurtigt sin båd i vandet, men uden resultat.
Den 27. maj drev liget af bombekasteren, F/O A.
V. Plante, i land i As Vig (ved Pøt Strand
her,
overblik her.)
Kilde: Bent Daugaard)
De andre besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FT 91-9-48)
Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Arthur Vincent Plante var fra Canada.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Han blev begravet den 31. maj 1945.
Monsignore Olrik holdt en tale og velsignede derefter graven efter det katolske
ritual.
Borgmester J. Chr. Juliussen udtalte det
officielle Danmarks tak til den faldne
canadiske flyver.
En RAF officer fra Århus takket følget på RAF´s vegne, for at man havde taget
sig af
F/O Plantes begravelse. (Kilde: FAF)
Den 3. august 1945
blev gravstenen afsløret:
A.V. Plante, canadisk officer, J 41513 Royal Canadian Air Force -
romersk-katolsk. Fundet på havet i As Vig den 27/5 1945 og begravet den 31/5
1945.
"Større kærlighed har ingen end den at sætte sit liv til for sine venner."
Johs. 15,13 Hvil i fred.
Se
Jeg vil mindes min ven Arthur
foto og tekst
af Bent Daugaard. Se
Plante blandt
47 navne i London
og Horsens. Se
Google Map HorsensEH47.
7 flyvere.
On 12 March 1945 each of 4 Lancasters
from 433 Squadron were to drop 6 x 1850 lbs MK IV mines in the Kattegat (about
here). At 1746 hrs LAN NG233
took off from
Skipton-on-Swale with F/O J. P. Farrell and his crew on their operation number 9
together.
The mines were dropped between 2100 hrs and 2110 hrs.
The plane was
attacked on the
return flight south west of Samsø at 2127 hours and caught fire.
LAN NG233 hit the water off As Hoved (here)
and sank within a
few minutes.
A Danish fisherman observed the crash and was
quick to get his boat into the water, but to no avail.
On 27 May the body of the bomb aimer, F/O A. V. Plante, drifted ashore in As Vig
(on Pøt Strand,
here
overview
here. Source: Bent Daugaard)
The other crew members have no known grave. (Source: FT 91-9-48)
Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Arthur Vincent
Plante was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the
BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 226.
He was buried on 31 May 1945. Monsignore Olrik delivered a speech and then blessed the grave according to
the Roman Catholic ritual.
Mayor J. Chr. Juliussen expressed the thanks of the official Denmark to the
fallen Canadian airman.
On behalf of the Royal Air Force an officer of the RAF in Aarhus thanked the
mourners for taking care of the funeral of F/O Plante. (Source: FAF)
This gravestone was unveiled on 3 August 1945:
A.V.Plante, Canadian Officer
J 41513 Royal Canadian Air Force Roman Catholic
found in the sea in As Vig 27-5-1945 and buried 31-5-1945
"Greater love than this no man hath that a man lay down his life
for his friends." St. John XV.13. R.I.P
See I'll remember my friend Arthur
photo and text
by Bent Daugaard.
See Plante among
47 names in London and Horsens. See also
Google Map HorsensEH47.
No. 433
(Porcupine) Squadron was formed within No. 6 Group, see
No. 6 Group and
the Canadian Squadrons
Lancaster
* Lancaster-BC
Museum.Canada
*
Lancaster Photos *
433
Tactical Fighter Squadron.
Lancaster I NG233 BM-E
took off from RAF
Skipton-on-Swale at 17.46 hrs on 12 MAR 1945. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) p408MACR
7 airmen.