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Commando 41-12371

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12371

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26498

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU138

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1943 to August 1943

  41-12371 - USAAF (USA)

17 May 1943

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

  August 1943 to February 1945

  39504 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

28 August 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

By August 1944

Assigned to Mobile, AL.

22 September 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.

2 February 1945

Reported missing south of Los Angeles, CA. Apparently crashed in unknown circumstances (7/7 [or 8/8] fatalities).

29 April 1945

Assigned to MAG-33. Date is assignment date.