Commando 44-77295

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77295

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32691

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1227

FATE: Broken up

  October 1944 to January 1946

  44-77295 - USAAF (USA)

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18 October 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

Assigned to the 4^th Combat Cargo Group, 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Bowman Field, KY.

12 November 1944

Ferried from Morrison Field, FL to Sylhet, Bengal, India.

Crew:
2^nd Lt. Earl S. Fitch Jr., Pilot
2^nd Lt. Dalton D. White, Copilot
Sgt. Joseph F. Hackiewicz, Crew Chief
Sgt. Oscar J. Sitzes, Radio Operator

28 November 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

Early December 1944

Arrived in Sylhet, Bengal, India with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Transported reinforcements and supplies for Allied forces in Burma.

December 1944

Transported material and equipment for the Ledo Road.

Early January 1945

Moved to Agartala, Tripura, India with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Late January 1945

Moved to Chittagong, Bengal, India with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

February 1945

Transported men, mules, and boats to support the Allied crossing of the Irrawaddy River, Burma.

May 1945

Dropped Gurkha paratroops during the assault on Rangoon.

June 1945

Moved to Namponmao, Burma with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Transported ammunition, gasoline, mules, and men to China.

November 1945

Moved to RAF Ondal, Bengal, India with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  42-101175 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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15 April 1946

Purchased. [quoted by JB and "Soviet Transports" as 25 April 1946]

1948

Withdrawn from use.