Commando 41-12342

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-10-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12342

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26469

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU109

FATE: Written off

  April 1943

  41-12342 - USAAF (USA)

15 April 1943

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

  April 1943 to February 1945

  39497 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

15 April 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

24 April 1943

Assigned to the newly established VMJ-353 based at Camp Kearny, CA.

8 July 1943

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

29 July 1943

Assigned to Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.

Unknown date

Assigned to VMJ-252.

5 February 1944

Lost at or near Midway. [5 February 1945 according to AB, probably a typo]

Pilot: 1^st Lt. W. L. Twits (survived)