Commando 41-12396

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12396

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26523

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU163

FATE: Written off

  June 1943

  41-12396 - USAAF (USA)

June 1943

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

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

25 June 1943

Damaged beyond repair in Kusheriki, Nigeria in a crash landing.

The Commando was probably being ferried from the USA to Assam, India, enroute between Lagos and Kano, Nigeria.

Pilot: Gene A. Itscherer