Leonard S. Plunkett Updated: 09 MAR 2021
Airman: e777094.htm Surname: Plunkett Init: L S Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 428
P_link: p364.htm Plane: LAN KB709 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea 10km off Anholt
Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 30. august 1944 styrtede LAN KB709 i Kattegat 10 km SV for Anholt under bombetogt til Stettin, se p364MACR. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: "KB709 lettede fra
Middleton St. George
kl. 21.19, og næsten 4 timer senere styrtede flyet brændende i havet sydvest for
Anholt. Flying Officer Leonard Stanley Plunkett,
26 år, var søn af Wallace og Lottie Plunkett, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. 3 flyvere fra
LAN
KB709 blev begravet på Anholt og 3 i Falkenberg i Sverige. 1 har ingen kendt
grav.
On 30 August 1944
LAN
KB709 crashed in the
Kattegat 10 km SW of Anholt on a
bombing raid on Stettin, see
p364MACR. Flying Officer Leonard Stanley Plunkett,
26, was the son of Wallace and Lottie Plunkett, of Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. 3 airmen from LAN KB709 were buried on Anholt and 3 in Falkenberg, Sweden. 1 has no known grave. See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons*No. 428 (Ghost) Squadron RCAF*428 Squadron Association*No.
428 Squadron RCAF*Operation 30 AUGUST 1944. |